Ebb And Flow Quotes

• Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.

  Bruce Barton

  Change, Fear, Errors

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• Being fully present isn’t something that happens once and then you have achieved it; it’s being awake to the ebb and flow and movement and creation of life, being alive to the process of life itself.

  Pema Chodron

  Movement, Alive, Creation

  Pema Chodron (1996). “Awakening Loving-Kindness”, p.35, Shambhala Publications

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• To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of years, to see the running of the old eels and the young shad to the sea, is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be.

  Rachel Carson

  Running, Moving, Years

  Paul Brooks, Rachel Carson (1972). “The house of life: Rachel Carson at work”

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• I trust in the ebb and flow of the universe. I trust that life's bigger than what I can see. I trust that there is a divine order beyond my control. And I trust that no matter what happens, I will be all right.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Faith, Divine Order, Matter

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• The sea ebbs and flows, but the rock remains unmoved.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Rocks, Sea, Remains

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilber, p. 101, 1895.

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• When you love someone you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible, in life as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom

  Leo Buscaglia

  Lying, Love Is, When You Love Someone

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• O precious is the pause between the winds that come and go, / And sweet the silence of the shores between the ebb and flow.

  Arthur O'Shaughnessy

  Sweet, Wind, Silence

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• There is nothing in the whole world which abides. All things are in a state of ebb and flow, and every shadow passes away. Even time itself, like a river, is constantly gliding away .

  Ovid

  Rivers, Shadow, Passing Away

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• There is ebb and flow. Leaving and coming. Flight and fall. Sing and silent. Reaching and reached.

  Ally Condie

  Fall, Leaving, Flight

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• There is nothing constant in the universe. All ebb and flow, and every shape that's born, bears in its womb the seeds of change.

  Ovid

  Destiny, Shapes, Bears

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• My heart resembles the ocean; has storm, and ebb and flow; and many a beautiful pearl lies hid in its depths below.

  Heinrich Heine

  Beautiful, Lying, Ocean

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• We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of time and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible in life, as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Life, Faith, Love Is

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1975). “GIFT FROM THE SEA”

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• It's such a capricious, strange existence, basing your life on the whims of others, and basing your ebbs and flows of confidence and lack of confidence on the fact that people either choose you or don't.

  Jon Hamm

  People, Facts, Strange

  "Jon Hamm, JB Bernstein, and Rinku Singh Talk MILLION DOLLAR ARM, the PG Rating, Seeing Their Lives Become a Movie, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 12, 2014.

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• I have a terrific marriage, but unlike a lot of relationships where they ebb and flow, no matter what happens you fall deeper and deeper in love every day. It's kind of the best thing that can happen to you. It's thrilling.

  Hugh Jackman

  Love, Fall, Men

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• When you love someone you do not love them, all the time, in the exact same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Lying, When You Love Someone, Demand

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• Now all you can do is wait. It must be hard for you, but there is a right time for everything. Like the ebb and flow of tides. No one can do anything to change them. When it is time to wait, you must wait.

  Haruki Murakami

  Pregnancy, Waiting, Tides

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Aug 27, 2015

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• Like the seasons of the year, life changes frequently and drastically. You enjoy it or endure it as it comes and goes, as it ebbs and flows.

  Burgess Meredith

  Life Changing, Years, Enjoy

  Burgess Meredith (1995). “So far, so good: a memoir”, Thorndike Pr

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• Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins--of happiness and unhappiness.

  Virginia Woolf

  Veins, Unhappiness, Explanation

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.818, Delphi Classics

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• Consider the ebb and flow of the tide. When waves come to strike the shore, they crest and fall, creating a sound. Your breath should follow the same pattern, absorbing the entire universe in your belly with each inhalation. Know that we all have access to four treasures: the energy of the sun and moon, the breath of heaven, the breath of earth, and the ebb and flow of the tide.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Fall, Moon, Creating

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.29, Shambhala Publications

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• Believe God's love and power more than you believe your own feelings and experiences. Your rock is Christ, and it is not the rock that ebbs and flows but the sea.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Spiritual, Believe, Rocks

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• In Shakespeare the birds sing, the bushes are clothed with green, hearts love, souls suffer, the cloud wanders, it is hot, it is cold, night falls, time passes, forests and multitudes speak, the vast eternal dream hovers over all. Sap and blood, all forms of the multiple reality, actions and ideas, man and humanity, the living and the life, solitudes, cities, religions, diamonds and pearls, dung-hills and charnelhouses, the ebb and flow of beings, the steps of comers and goers, all, all are on Shakespeare and in Shakespeare.

  Victor Hugo

  Dream, Fall, Heart

  Victor Hugo (2001). “William Shakespeare”, p.80, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• For the perfect idler, for the passionate observer it becomes an immense source of enjoyment to establish his dwelling in the throng, in the ebb and flow, the bustle, the fleeting and the infinite. To be away from home and yet to feel at home anywhere; to see the world, to be at the very centre of the world, and yet to be unseen of the world, such are some of the minor pleasures of those independent, intense and impartial spirits, who do not lend themselves easily to linguistic definitions. The observer is a prince enjoying his incognito wherever he goes.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Travel, Home, Independent

  "The Painter of Modern Life".

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• Mountaineering is a complex and unique way of life, interweaving elements of sport, art and mysticism. Success or failure depends on the ebb and flow of immense inspiration. Detecting a single rule governing this energy is difficult - it arises and vanishes like the urge to dance and remains as mysterious as the phenomenon of life itself.

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Sports, Art, Inspiration

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• I think my recognizability ebbs and flows. I don't lead a particularly celebrity lifestyle or anything like that. I don't go to showbiz parties or red-carpet events, so it all depends on whether I've got a film out. I've not been very visible in the last year or so and as a result hardly anyone stops me in the street.

  James McAvoy

  Party, Thinking, Years

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• If you can, always be appreciative of the ebb and flow of the losses and the wins.

  Jamie Foxx

  Loss, Winning, Appreciative

  Source: collider.com

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