Some of the most magical sights we’ve ever seen are the deep blue lakes of New Zealand and Canada. With colours so vivid that it’s hard to believe until you’ve seen it with your own eyes. There’s something so peaceful about sitting by the shore and watching the reflections in the water, it’s endlessly inspiring.
We’ve put together some of our favourite thought provoking lake quotes to help you caption those dreamy Instagram pictures.
40 of the most beautiful lake quotes
“Not every lake dreams to be an ocean. Blessed are the ones who are happy with whom they are.”
- Mehmet Murat ildan
“When the mind is silent like a lake the lotus blossoms.”
- Amit Ray
“So lovely was the loneliness of a wild lake.”
- Edgar Allan Poe
“If the lake sees the ocean, it will want big waves! If the ocean sees the lake, it will want calm days that lasts for years!”
- Mehmet Murat ildan
“Make your heart like a lake with a calm, still surface and great depths of kindness.”
- Lao Tzu
“It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.”
- Nicholas Sparks
“A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.”
- Henry David Thoreau
“When a lake’s doubt is shown as ripples, sunshine rays are flown to the hills.”
- Ankush Agarwal
“The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.”
- Georges Simenon
“Even a pebble cast in the middle of a lake creates ripples that eventually reach the shore.”
- Jeffrey G. Duarte
“There’s only one way to tackle life, enjoy a day at the beach, and jump into a Great Lake: Headfirst!”
- Viola Shipman
“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If there are ripples on the surface of a lake, we cannot see the depth. Similarly unless the mind is restful, we cannot experience the harmony and union within us.”
- Sri Ravi Shankar
“Water is the driving force of all nature.”
- Leonardo da Vinci
“This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.”
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Every lake belongs to the quietness desired by the swans.”
- Munia Khan
“Some people look like frozen lakes; break the ice, there you will see a lively world!”
- Mehmet Murat ildan
“Be calm like a calm lake, then you will look beautiful like a beautiful calm lake!”
- Mehmet Murat ildan
“An ocean which thinks there is nothing to learn from a lake is not a wise ocean!”
- Mehmet Murat idlan
“Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.”
- Wallace Stevens
“My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.”
- Hamlin Garland
“Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.”
- John Lubbock
“The still waters of a lake reflect the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.”
- B.K.S Iyengar
“Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.”
- Rumi
“Grace is like a lake of drinkable water right outside your door. But you stay inside and die of thirst.”
- Maya Angelou
“A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.”
- William Wordsworth
“Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.”
- Muhammad Ali
“Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.”
- Orison Swett Marden
“Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.”
- Percy Ross
“If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.”
- Loren Eiseley
“In the hearts captivated by innocence, the eternal peace of a quiet lake is experienced!”
- Mehmet Murat Ildan
“The sky loves lakes rather than oceans because it finds the opportunity to watch itself in the crystal clear mirrors of the lakes!”
- Mehmet Murat Ildan
“I believe that water is the closest thing to a god we have here on Earth.“
- Alex Z. Moores
“Find a calm lake and wait for the twilight in silence! There, existence will visit you with all its magnificence! The existence of the Existence can best be felt in the presence of dimness and in the absence of crowds and noises!”
- Mehmet Murat ildan
“Even the smallest act of caring for another person is like a drop of water. It will make ripples throughout the entire pond.”
- Bryan Matteo
“There is something more beautiful than a beautiful thing and that is a beautiful thing which has a beautiful reflection on the water.”
- Mehmet Murat Ildan
“A little tranquil lake is more significant to my life than any big city in the world”
- Munia Khan
“The lake water was reinventing the forest and the white moon above it, and wolves lapped up the cold reflection of the sky.”
- Karen Russell
"Let nature be your teacher"
- William Wordsworth
