Top 40 Flow Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The happiest people spend much time in a state of flow – the state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter; the experience itself is so enjoyable that people will do it even at great cost, for the sheer sake of doing it.”

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Also featured in: Happiness Quotes, Experience Quotes, Psychology Quotes, Wellness Quotes, Fulfillment Quotes

2. “Flow is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz.”

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Also featured in: Experience Quotes, Psychology Quotes, Engagement Quotes

3. “You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water, my friend.”

— Bruce Lee

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Action Quotes, Learning Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes

4. “Love what you do; Do what you love.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

Also featured in: Happiness Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success, Inspirational Quotes for Work, Career Development Quotes

5. “Be like water, my friend.”

— Bruce Lee

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Change Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes, Philosophical Quotes

6. “Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless – like water.”

— Bruce Lee

Also featured in: Mind Quotes, Inspiring Quotes, Martial Arts Quotes

7. “Those who flow as life flows know they need no other force.”

— Lao Tzu

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Enlightenment Quotes, Spiritual Growth Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes

8. “Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”

— Bruce Lee

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Short Motivational Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Workout Quotes

9. “The earth laughs in flowers.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Also featured in: Feel Good Quotes, Poetry Quotes, Appreciation Quotes, Beautiful Quotes

10. “To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.”

— Alan Watts

Also featured in: Deep Quotes About Life, Life Philosophy Quotes, Faith Quotes, Quotes About Believing

11. “Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.”

— Bruce Lee

Also featured in: Meaningful Quotes, Wisdom Quotes, Intelligent Quotes, Good Morning Motivational Quotes

12. “You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.”

— Alan Watts

Also featured in: Wisdom Quotes, Universe Quotes, Quotes About the World, Quotes About Reality

13. “Don't try to steer the river.”

— Deepak Chopra

14. “Just let go. Let go of how you thought your life should be, and embrace the life that is trying to work its way into your consciousness.”

— Caroline Myss

Also featured in: Acceptance Quotes, Enlightenment Quotes, Moving On Quotes, Soul Quotes, Letting Go Quotes

15. “Nothing is constant except change.”

— Heraclitus

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Changing the World Quotes, Clever Quotes, Quotes About the World

16. “Don’t ever go with the flow. Be the flow.”

— Jay-Z

Also featured in: Taking Action Quotes, Ambition Quotes, Being Yourself Quotes, Artist Quotes

17. “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you... I could walk through my garden forever.”

— Alfred Tennyson

Also featured in: Caring Quotes, Desire Quotes, Romantic Quotes, Valentine's Day Quotes, Soulmate Quotes

18. “The idea is that flowing water never goes stale, so just keep on flowing.”

— Bruce Lee

Also featured in: Moving On Quotes, Progress Quotes, Quotes About Ideas

19. “You better lose yourself in the music, the moment You own it, you better never let it go You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo.”

— Eminem

Also featured in: Music Quotes, Passion Quotes, Victory Quotes, Risk-Taking Quotes

20. “When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Passion Quotes, Appreciation Quotes, Being Yourself Quotes, Purpose Quotes

21. “Whatever comes, let it come. What stays, let it stay. What goes, let it go.”

— H. W. L. Poonja

Also featured in: Acceptance Quotes, Moving On Quotes, Giving Up Quotes, Different Quotes, Soul Quotes

22. “Being one with life is being one with Now. You then realize that you don’t live your life, but life lives you. Life is the dancer, and you are the Dance.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Also featured in: Meaning Quotes, Awakening Quotes, Enlightenment Quotes, Mindfulness Quotes

23. “As I say yes to life, life says yes to me!”

— Louise Hay

Also featured in: Positivity Quotes, Sweet Quotes, Manifestation Quotes, Empowerment Quotes, Affirmation Quotes

24. “There is nothing permanent except change. Nothing is permanent except change. The only constant is change. Change is the only constant. Change alone is unchanging.”

— Heraclitus

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Smart Quotes, Philosophy Quotes, Clever Quotes

25. “The wave does not need to die to become water. She is already water.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

Also featured in: Transformation Quotes, Awakening Quotes, Inner Peace Quotes, Practice Quotes, Peace Quotes

26. “Nothing endures but change. There is nothing permanent except change. All is flux, nothing stays still.”

— Heraclitus

Also featured in: Time Quotes, Change Quotes, Transformation Quotes, Philosophical Quotes, Moving Quotes

27. “Flow in the living moment – We are always in a process of becoming and nothing is fixed.”

— Bruce Lee

Also featured in: Transformation Quotes

28. “I let go of my need to control and allow the Universe to do her thing.”

— Gabrielle Bernstein

Also featured in: Awakening Quotes, Miracle Quotes, Universe Quotes, Letting Go Quotes

29. “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”

— Laozi

Also featured in: Acceptance Quotes, Taoism Quotes, Letting Go Quotes, Quotes About Reality

30. “Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free.”

— Zhuangzi

Also featured in: Freedom Quotes, Taoism Quotes, Letting Go Quotes

31. “In your action, you lose sight of the vision, you lose sight of your trust in the process, and you just bang around in a sense of futility. Hold the vision and trust that the Universe will acclimate to your vision. Hold the vision and trust the process.”

— Esther Hicks

Also featured in: Intention Quotes, Law Of Attraction Quotes, Universe Quotes, Desire Quotes, Vision Quotes

32. “You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup.”

— Bruce Lee

Also featured in: Adaptability Quotes, Martial Arts Quotes

33. “As I let go of the need to arrange my life, the universe brings abundant good to me.”

— Deepak Chopra

Also featured in: Blessing Quotes, Prosperity Quotes, Manifestation Quotes, Affirmation Quotes

34. “You go into flow when your highest strengths are deployed to meet the highest challenges that come your way.”

— Martin E.P. Seligman

Also featured in: Happiness Quotes, Engagement Quotes

35. “All things flow, nothing abides. You cannot step into the same river twice, for the waters are continually flowing on. Nothing is permanent except change.”

— Heraclitus

Also featured in: Adaptability Quotes, Time Flies Quotes, Quotes About Water

36. “Do not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the Universe.”

— Zhuangzi

Also featured in: Acceptance Quotes, Harmony Quotes, Universe Quotes, Taoism Quotes

37. “Everything happens when it needs to happen; everyone is always where they need to be. You will never miss out on what is meant for you, even if it has to come to you in a roundabout way.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

Also featured in: Blessing Quotes, Acceptance Quotes, Intention Quotes, Path Quotes

38. “There is one aspect of happiness that’s been well studied, and it’s the notion of flow. Ask yourselves, when for you does time stop? When are you truly at home, wanting to be no place else?”

— Martin E.P. Seligman

Also featured in: Happiness Quotes, Psychology Quotes, Happy Quotes, Engagement Quotes

39. “Surrender is the simple but profound wisdom of yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Also featured in: Acceptance Quotes, Enlightenment Quotes

40. “Love is the water of life, jump into this water.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Love Life Quotes, Sufism Quotes, Love You Quotes, I Love You Quotes for Her