Ocean Wave Quotes

• We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean "waves," the universe "peoples." Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.

  Alan Watts

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Ocean

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.8, Souvenir Press

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  You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• A life on the ocean wave! A home on the rolling deep, Where the scattered waters rave, And the winds their revels keep!

  Epes Sargent

  Life, Ocean, Home

  Epes Sargent (1849). “Songs of the sea, with other poems”, p.50

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• Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspirational, Life, Beach

  Albert Schweitzer (1929). “Civilization and Ethics”

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• Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life.

  Tamora Pierce

  Beach, Ocean, Wave Of Life

  Tamora Pierce (2011). “Circle of Magic #1: Sandry's Book”, p.79, Scholastic Inc.

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• The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.

  Isak Dinesen

  Beach, Encouragement, Ocean

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• I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.

  Drew Barrymore

  Beach, Ocean, Wave Of Life

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• I am you; you are ME. You are the waves; I am the ocean. Know this and be free, be divine.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Beach, Freedom, Ocean

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Apr 22, 2017

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• To me the sea is a continual miracle; The fishes that swim - the rocks - the motion of the waves - the ships, with men in them, what stranger miracles are there?

  Walt Whitman

  Beach, Ocean, Marine

  Walt Whitman (1861). “Leaves of Grass”, p.220

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• God is always seeking you. Every sunset. Every clear blue sky. Each ocean wave. The starry hosts of night. He blankets each new day with the invitation, ‘I am here.’

  Louie Giglio

  Ocean, Sunset, Night

  Louie Giglio, Stuart Hall (2011). “Wired: For a Life of Worship Leader's Guide”, p.31, Multnomah

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• 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

  Inspirational, Trust, Faith

  "The Essence of Alan Watts". Book by Alan Watts, 1977.

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• Trends come like a series of ocean waves, bringing the high tide when things are good and, as conditions recede, the low tide appears. These trends come unexpectedly, unpredictably, and they have to be weathered with temperance, poise, and patience- good or bad.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Ocean, Trends, Tides

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• You're not a wave, you're a part of the ocean.

  Mitch Albom

  Ocean, Wave

  Twitter post from May 24, 2016

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• Do you ever wonder how much deeper the ocean would be without sponges?

  Stephen Hawking

  Ocean, Would Be, Wonder

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• Myriad laughter of the ocean waves.

  Aeschylus

  Laughter, Ocean, Wave

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• I spent uncounted hours sitting at the bow looking at the water and the sky, studying each wave, different from the last, seeing how it caught the light, the air, the wind; watching patterns, the sweep of it all, and letting it take me. The sea.

  Gary Paulsen

  Ocean, Light, Air

  Gary Paulsen (2007). “Caught by the Sea: My Life on Boats”, p.4, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Think about it: it is easy to see God's beauty in a glorious sunset or in ocean waves crashing on a beach. But can you find the holiness in a struggle for life?

  Harold S. Kushner

  Beach, Ocean, Struggle

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• My love, i would like even more; to be an ocean if you are the wave; to be a wave, if you are the ocean.

  Nicolas Guillen

  Ocean, Sea, Wave

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• We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.

  Alan Watts

  Tree, World, This World

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.8, Souvenir Press

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• Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Ocean, Humor

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  Surfing soothes me, it's always been a kind of Zen experience for me. The ocean is so magnificent, peaceful, and awesome. The rest of the world disappears for me when I'm on a wave.

  Paul Walker

  Ocean, Wave Of Life, Peaceful

  FaceBook post by Paul Walker from Jun 20, 2014

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• So that the monotonous fall of the waves on the beach, which for the most part beat a measured and soothing tattoo to her thoughts seemed consolingly to repeat over and over again.

  Virginia Woolf

  Tattoo, Beach, Ocean

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “To the Lighthouse”, p.15, Virginia Woolf

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• I do like the ocean wave, actually. I'm born under the sign of Cancer - the sign of the crab - so I like coastal areas and sunny beaches and such - although not the wide-open and deep seas.

  Anjelica Huston

  Beach, Cancer, Ocean

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• There are a lot of similarities between music and surfing. There's a rhythm to both of them and with sound waves and ocean waves, you see patterns, plus the breathing is all part of it.

  Jon Foreman

  Ocean, Breathing, Surfing

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• You don't understand. You're not a wave. You're part of the ocean.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Ocean, Wave, Crashing Waves

  Morrie Schwartz (2011). “Morrie In His Own Words: Life Wisdom From a Remarkable Man”, p.27, Pan Macmillan

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