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River Quotes for Instagram – 100+ Perfect Captions for Your Photos

Whenever I’m walking along the River Wandle Trail, I’m always taking photographs to upload to my instagram account. This post contains a list of River Quotes for Instagram you can add to your posts.

River Quotes for Instagram

Spiritual River Quotes

Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.

Mikhail Lermontov

What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn’t have any doubt – it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn’t want to go anywhere else.

Hal Boyle
Spiritual River Quotes

You can’t be unhappy in the middle of a big, beautiful river.

Jim Harrison

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Ross Perot

I choose to listen to the river for a while, thinking river thoughts, before joining the night and the stars.

Edward Abbey

Never test the depth of river with both the feet.

Warren Buffett

Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place, and this will be carried away too.

Marcus Aurelius
River Quotes for Instagram

With heavy rainfall, the river will overflow its banks. This is spirit of gratitude; the more grateful you are, the more your life overflow with abundance.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Just as a drop of water in the ocean cannot avail much; but if a great river runneth into it, that maketh a great commotion.

Jakob Bohme

Beautiful River Quotes

TWENTY bridges from Tower to Kew –

Wanted to know what the River knew,

Twenty Bridges or twenty-two,

For they were young, and the Thames was old

And this is the tale that River told:”

Rudyard Kipling

I’m really quite simple. I plant flowers and watch them grow… I stay at home and watch the river flow.

George Harrison

Love is the river of life in the world.

Henry Ward Beecher

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

Zhuangzi

River is time in water; as it came, still so it flows, yet never is the same.

Barten Holyday

A river doesn’t just carry water, it carries life.

Amit Kalantri

Love like a river will cut a new path whenever it meets an obstacle. Love like a river will cut a new path whenever it meets an obstacle.

Crystal Middlemass

River Quotes About Life

May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.

Rainer Maria Rilke
River Quotes About Life

Life is like the river, sometimes it sweeps you gently along and sometimes the rapids come out of nowhere.

Emma Smith

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

Heraclitus

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Jorge Luis Borges

The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it’s going to go and where you’ll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don’t let anyone deter you from that.

Eartha Kitt

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

Paulo Coelho
River Quotes for Instagram

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

Khalil Gibran

Life is much like a river. I can’t determine where the river comes from or where it’s flowing to. But I can immerse myself in it as it’s flowing by me.

Craig D. Lounsbrough
Beautiful River Quotes

Life is like a river. Let it flow in its own way. Never try to control it.

Shobana Rajasundaram
River captions

Time is like a river. You cannot touch the same water twice, because the flow that has passed will never pass again. Enjoy every moment of your life!

Life is like a river. The way of life is to flow with the current. To turn against it takes effort, but the current will carry you if you let it.

Life is like a river. It will either drag you with its flow, or you can learn to surf. Choice is yours.

Nitin Kishore Rawat

I understand that everything is connected, that all roads meet, and that all rivers flow into the same sea.

Paulo Coelho

The River of Life has no meaning, no good, no bad, no better, no worse, no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy. The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation. The River of Life just IS.

Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life in us is like the water in a river.

Henry David Thoreau

I had no plans of any destination. I wish to flow like a river. When the river meets the sea, he dies! Because the character of the river is to flow and when the character dies, everything dies!

Lailah Gifty Akita

Nature River Quotes

I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries.

Brian Andreas, Story People
River quotes for instagram

A good river is nature’s life work in song.

Mark Helprin, Freddy and Fredericka

A river is water is its loveliest form, rivers have life and sound and movement and infinity of variation, rivers are veins of the earth through which the lifeblood returns to the heart.

Roderick Haig-Brown

I have never seen a river that I could not love. Moving water…has a fascinating vitality. It has power and grace and associations. It has a thousand colors and a thousand shapes, yet it follows laws so definite that the tiniest streamlet is an exact replica of a great river.

Roderick Haig Brown

The river was so blue it seemed to be breathing.

Brian Morton

In the harmonious synthesis of the opposite ends of the river, flows the stream of happiness.

Awdhesh Singh

Water is the driving force of all nature.

Leonardo da Vinci

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Short River Captions

High tides, good vibes

Unknown

The deeper the waters are, the more still they run.

Korean Proverb

Time flows away like the water in the river.

Confucius

Live like a mighty river.

Gautama Buddha
Buddha quote

It is from small streams that big rivers rise.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The river is my happy place

River water is just like poem without words

Life is a deep river, Its noise breaks us in parts, and its silence slowly silent our heart

Hungry for life, thirsty for the distant river

Human nature is like water, It takes the shape of its container

Blue sky, denim shorts, and river floating

Day dreams of river streams

Funny River Quotes

Some drink deeply from the river of knowledge. Others only gargle.

Woody Allen
Woody Allen quote

River life, because beaches are salty.

At the river we don’t hide crazy, we parade it and give it a beer.

I don’t like doing the dishes much, who does? but when I got to sit in the middle of a beautiful river while doing it, I very much enjoyed it.

Inspirational River Quotes

A river seems a magic thing. A magic, moving, living part of the very earth itself.

Laura Gilpin

A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence.

James N. Watkins
A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence.

“I was still water, held by my surroundings. I am now a river, carving my own path.”

Scott Stabile

If you have learnt enjoying life without purpose, like a flowing river, you have learnt the art of living.

Girdhar Joshi

Surrender to the flow of the River of Life, yet do not float down the river like a leaf or a log. While neither attempting to resist life nor to hurry it, become the rudder and use your energy to correct your course to avoid the whirlpools and undertow.

Jonathan Lockwood Huie

One can flow harmoniously with the River – or one can struggle fearfully against the River – and the River just flows.

Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it’s going to go and where you’ll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don’t let anyone deter you from that.

Eartha Kitt

A Woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and only herself.

Maya Angelou

Peaceful River Quotes

Who hears the rippling of rivers will not utterly despair of anything.

Henry David Thoreau
Who hears the rippling of rivers will not utterly despair of anything.

What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn’t have any doubt it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn’t want to go anywhere else.

Hal Boyle

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

A.A. Milne
Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

The river is such a tranquil place, a place to sit and think of romance and the beauty of nature, to enjoy the elegance of swans and the chance of a glimpse of a kingfisher.

Jane Wilson-Howarth

I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.

John O’Donohue

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

Kahil Gibran

Water takes the shape of its container, whether it be in a glass, a vase or a river bank. Likewise, your subconscious will create and manifest according to the images you habitually project upon it through your daily thinking. This is how your destiny is created. Your life is in your hands, to make of it what you choose.

John Kehoe

I love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfoldings

John O’Donohue

Adopting the pace of nature, finding more stillness even when I’m moving and just going with the beautiful flow of life.

Water is my all time majestic healer and source of energy and peace.

River Quotes by Mark Twain

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

Mark Twain

Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.

Mark Twain

The river has great wisdom and whispers its secrets to the hearts of men.

Mark Twain

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Thank you for reading my post about river quotes for instagram. I hope you were able to find some good Instagram captions for your post! I am always looking for the perfect caption for my instagram post, and will update this page when I find new quotes. Also, if you have come across any clever captions relating to rivers, please feel free to leave them in the comment section below!