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• Open all your pores and bathe in all the tides of nature, in all her streams and oceans, at all seasons.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Ocean, Streams, Seasons

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.119, Courier Corporation

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• Your soul is infinitely creative. It is alive and expansive in nature. It is curious and playful, changing with the tides of time.

  Debbie Ford

  Creativity, Creative, Soul

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• My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Beach, Listening, Done

  Rabindranath Tagore (2007). “Stray Birds”, p.11, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• We must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

  William Shakespeare

  Opportunity, Sea Voyage, Venture

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 215

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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 heaviest anguish often precedes a return tide of joy and courage.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Hope, Joy, Return

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.358, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• The feelings we live through in love and in loneliness are simply, for us, what high tide and low tide are to the sea.

  Khalil Gibran

  Loneliness, Sea, Feelings

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• I've always wanted to push myself and move with the tide. That's just how I am and it's worked for me.

  Bryan Adams

  Moving, Wanted

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• Mother's life flowed radiant. Flourescent-tipped waves on incoming tides.

  Maya Angelou

  Mother, Wave, Radiant

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• Man wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides.

  Pat Conroy

  Men, Wonder

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Prince of Tides: A Novel”, p.45, Open Road Media

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• Here I am, I still go on, you know, like the tides.

  Angela Lansbury

  Here I Am, Goes On, Stills

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• Am I a weed, carried this way, that way, on a tide that comes twice a day without a meaning?

  Virginia Woolf

  Weed, Way

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “The Years”, p.294, Booklassic

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• I saw the long line of the vacant shore, The sea-weed and the shells upon the sand, And the brown rocks left bare on every hand, As if the ebbing tide would flow no more.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Weed, Rocks, Hands

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.930, Delphi Classics

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• The rising tide lifts all the boats.

  John F. Kennedy

  Rising, Cape Cod, Boat

  Remarks, Pueblo, Colo., 17 Aug. 1962. An earlier occurrence appears in the Wall Street Journal, 29 Oct. 1957: "The Rising Tide Lifts All Boats."

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• I swim against the tide because I like to annoy.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Swim, Annoying

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2009). “The Angel's Game: The Cemetery of Forgotten”, p.188, Hachette UK

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• Dead fish don't swim around in jealous tides.

  Scott Weiland

  Jealous, Swim, Fishes

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• I know what my heart is like Since your love died: It is like a hollow ledge Holding a little pool Left there by the tide, A little tepid pool, Drying inward from the edge.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Heart, Inward, Ledges

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.61, Library of America

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• Tide comes in, tide goes out, you can't explain it!

  Bill O'Reilly

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• There is a tide in the affairs of men

  William Shakespeare

  Philosophical, Opportunity, Men

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 215

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• I suppose life is a little like that, isn't it, a message in a bottle pitched out to sea, to be carried by the winds and the tides, washing up on the beaches we could never imagine.

  Gene Tierney

  Life, Wind, Actresses

  "Self-portrait".

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• Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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  Light breaks where no sun shines; Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart; Push in their tides.

  Dylan Thomas

  Love, Running, Heart

  'Light breaks where no sun shines' (1934)

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• There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Taken, Opportunity

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 215

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• Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.

  Warren Buffett

  Funny, Motivation, Business

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• When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
  When you're down to nothing, God is up to something. The faithful see the invisible, believe the incredible and then receive the impossible.
  Where liberty dwells there is my country.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Country, Giving Up, Believe

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