“The Lord reached down from above and took hold of me; he pulled me out of the deep waters” ~Psalm 18:16 TEV
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"I never was on the dull, tame shore,
But I loved the great sea more and more."
~Bryan Procter
"A calm sea is one of the best tranquillisers." ~Leah C. Dancel, 11 August 2013
"A cloud as small as a man's hand is rising from the sea." ~1 Kings 18:44
"A contented heart is a calm sea in the midst of all storms." ~Anon
"A dream is like a river ever changing as it flows and a dreamer's just a vessel that must follow where it goes." ~Garth Brooks
"A frog in a well does not know the greatness of the sea." ~Japanese Proverb
"A good river is nature's life work in song." ~Mark Helprin
‘A little sand between your toes always takes away your woes’ –Anon
"A lot of people attack the sea. I make love to it." ~Jacques-Yves Costeau
"A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence." ~Anthony Gucciardi
“A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure.” ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
"Ah September, you are the doorway to the season that awakens my soul." ~Peggy Toney Horton
"A seashell is never empty. It is filled with many things. It holds the sounds of crashing waves and songs that mermaids sing." ~Mermaid Musing T
"A smooth sea never made a skillful sailor." ~Mariner's Proverb
"A ship in port is safe, but that is not what ships are for. Sail out to sea and do new things." ~Grace Hopper (1906-1992)
"A ship on the beach is a lighthouse to the sea." ~Dutch Proverb
"Ah September, you are the doorway to the season that awakens my soul." ~Peggy Toney Horton
"A seashell is never empty. It is filled with many things. It holds the sounds of crashing waves and songs that mermaids sing." ~Mermaid Musing T
"A smooth sea never made a skillful sailor." ~Mariner's Proverb
“A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.” ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
"A ship in port is safe, but that is not what ships are for. Sail out to sea and do new things." ~Grace Hopper (1906-1992)
"A ship on the beach is a lighthouse to the sea." ~Dutch Proverb
"A waterfall cannot be silent, when they speak, the voice of power speaks!" ~Mehmet Murat Ildan
"A woman's heart is like a sea; it's both deep and rough and hides pearls." ~Moritz (Moses) Gottlieb Saphir
"A woman who is 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
"An anchor helps keep a ship safe in a storm, providing stability and protection from being tossed by waves." ~ Pastor Rick Warren
"Again we took to the beach for another day, walking along the shore of the resounding sea, determined to get it into us. We wished to associate with the ocean until it lost the pond-like look which it wears to a countryman." ~Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist.
"All habits gather by unseen degrees,
As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas." ~John Dryden
“All know that the drop merges into the ocean, but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.” ~Kabir
"All of life are about relationships. We are as waves in one sea, flowing into each other...and transforming each other...BEING EACH OTHER! No one is ever the same, or ever lost...every wave forever arises from, and returns to the one sea! ......Though the surface of the sea is forever moving and changing, there is the never changing silent stillness deep down below. We must learn to be...the wholeness of the sea!" ~Surf Reyes
"All storms of the heart will come to pass. There’s always a peaceful shoreline and a safe harbor touching all troubled waters. Sail on!" ~Robert Clancy
“All streams flow to the sea because it is lower than they are. Humility gives it its power." ~Lao Tzu
"And I saw the river over which every soul must pass to reach the kingdom of Heaven. And the name of that river was suffering. And I saw the boat which carries souls across the river. And the name of that boat was Love." ~St. John of the Cross
"And there was a sea. I was not prepared for the flood of emotion which swept over me when I saw it. I was stirred to the very depths of my being – tears filled my eyes – I trembled! For a moment it seemed passionately to me that I could never leave it again." ~L.M. Montgomery
"As I walk to the sea of thought, I find this shell beautiful and precious!" ~Precy Bierbaum
"A warm breeze blew through my window like a gentle wave lapping the sandy shore in summer at low tide, and as I took in a breath of air that blanketed my body like tall grass in a field I felt for just that moment in time, like I did when I was a child. I felt that I had not one worry, not one burden, nothing was on my mind except that breeze that made the curtains swell like balloons." ~Christina Pagliarulo
"An entire sea of water can't sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship. Similarly the negativity of the world can't put you down unless you allow it to get inside you." ~Goi Nasu
"As the ocean is never full of water, so is the heart never full of love." ~Irie, FB
“Be calm like a calm lake, then you will look beautiful like a beautiful calm lake!” ~Mehmet Murat Ildan
"Be grateful for the rough seas... even though they are difficult and sometimes so painful, it is by navigating through those waters that we acquire our greatest strength and perspectives on life." ~Life's a Dance
"Be still and you will hear the sound of your own ocean." ~I Must Be a Mermaid
"Be still like a mountain, and flow like a great river." ~Lao Tzu
"Because there's nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it's sent away." ~Sarah Kay
"Being close to water brings me closer to my soul." ~Steve Aitchison
"Bless the waters for they carry the love of the universe." ~Diana Cooper
"Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses." ~Horace
"He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.” ~Henry David Thoreau
“Her happiness floated like waves of ocean along the coast of her life. She found lyrics of her life in his arms but she never sung her song.” ~ Santosh Kalwar from Beautiful Soul
"How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean." ~Arthur C. Clarke
"I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples." ~Mother Teresa
“I crave a love so deep, the ocean would be jealous." ~Pablo Neruda
"I do not belong inside the concrete jungle where the air grows thick with fumes and destruction. I belong where I can feel the earth with my bare feet and the rivers flow peacefully beneath the lush trees and their melodic friends. I belong with nature." ~Anon (from Waking Wonder)
"I dreamt we were sailing down a perfectly still stream." ~Not Long Left
"I feel like running away
and talk to the wind,
cry out to the waves of the ocean
and curl within their curves
as if they would hug me in comfort;
and the rustling leaves
are just soothing whispers of love,
assuring me that all is well.
In reality, that whispering
of love is true!"
~Leah C. Dancel,
1 February 2014
"I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
"I have always been fascinated by the ocean, to dip a limb beneath its surface and know that I'm touching eternity, that it goes on forever until it begins here again." ~Lauren DeStefano
"I've always believed that a mind that wasn't learning was as a body of water standing still, growing stagnant, but a mind willing and capable to grow, the possibilities are endless, as a rushing river or the mighty oceans." ~Christopher Livingston
"I have an ocean of courage buried somewhere inside me. I know this because I taste the salt every time I cry." ~Tyler Knott Gregson
"In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is a story of the earth." ~Rachel Carson (1907-1964)
"In stillness like the mountain; in motion like the river." ~Wang Zong Yue
"Just breathe ... and let the sea soothe your soul." ~I Must Be A Mermaid, FB
"Just let go - and fall like a little waterfall.. While people are struggling unhappily in the cities against the cruel authorities, a waterfall happily and cheerfully flows in the nature; there is happiness only if there is freedom!" ~Mehmet Murat Ildan
"Keep sailing no matter how rough is the ocean...til you reach the seashore of hope." ~Juvilla Mcgowran
“Let love be the peace-filled ocean your heart swims in from now until the end of time.” ~Robert Clancy
"Love: There’s nothing sweeter than the fragrance of unconditional love. Be that beautiful ocean of flowering kindness." ~Robert Clancy
“Love was like the waves in the sea, gentle and good sometimes, rough and terrible at others, but that it was endless and stronger than the sky and earth and everything in between.” ~Veronica Rossi, Through the Ever Night
“My course is set for an uncharted sea.” ~Dante Alighieri From Paradise
"My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea and the heart of the ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me." ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Nevertheless, the drinking of intoxicants is almost universal; not so much because men are greedy as because they are cold and wish to be warmed, or unhappy and wish to forget - or simply because the water available to them is not fit to drink." ~Anon
"No life can be barren which hears the whisper of the wind in the branches, or the voice of the sea as it breaks upon the shore; and no soul can lack happiness looking up into the midnight stars." ~William Winter
“No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning.” ~Native American Proverb
“Nobody can build the bridge for you to walk across the river of life, only you yourself alone. There are, to be sure, countless paths and bridges and demi-gods which would carry you across this river; but only at the cost of yourself; you would pawn yourself and lose.” ~F. W. Nietzsche, “Untimely Meditations”
"Oceans separate lands not souls." ~from Love and Peace is all We Need
"On her serene ocean the restless mind relaxes, thoughts drift of their own accord to the stillness within." ~Anon
"On the still calm waters of surrender, the reflections of clarity appear." ~Bryant McGill
"Once you carry your own water, you will learn the value of every drop." ~Anon
"Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money." ~Cree Proverb
"Open your palms and your body to the pain. It comes in waves like a tide, and you must be open as a vessel lying on the beach, letting it fill you up and then, retreating, leaving you empty and clear. . . . With a deep breath--it has to be as deep as the pain--one reaches a kind of inner freedom from pain, as though the pain were not yours, but your body's. The spirit lays the body on the altar." ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"Our children no longer learn how to read the great Book of Nature from their own direct experience or how to interact creatively with the seasonal transformations of the planet. They seldom learn where their water comes from or where it goes. We no longer coordinate our human celebration with the great liturgy of the heavens." ~Wendell Berry
"Our memories of the ocean will linger on, long after our footprints in the sand are gone." ~Anon
"People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering." ~St. Augustine, Early Christian Priest, Author
"Read a thousand books and your words will flow like a river." ~Virginia Woolf
"Reason and faith are both banks of the same river." ~Doménico Cieri Estrada
"Salt is born of the purest of parents: the sun and the sea." ~Phythagoras
"Seeing the ocean reminds us of our place on the planet: limited in space and time." ~Martin Dickinson
“She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air.”
~Holly Black (The Beauty of a Woman)
“She reminded me of the sea; the way she came dancing towards you, wild and beautiful, and just when she was almost close enough to touch she'd rush away again.” ~Glenda Millard (The Beauty of a Woman)
“She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent hours on the riverbank... and had midnight swims...” ~Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things from Goodreads
"Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind." ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors." ~African Proverb
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” ~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
"Some people survive and talk about it. Some people survive and go silent. Everyone deals with unimaginable pain in their own way, and everyone is entitled to that, without judgment. So the next time you look at someone's life covetously, remember … you may not want to endure what they are enduring right now, at this moment, whilst they sit so quietly before you, looking like a calm ocean on a sunny day. Remember how vast the ocean's boundaries are. Whilst somewhere the water is calm, in another place in the very same ocean, there is a colossal storm." ~Nikita Gill
"Take a moment whenever you remember just to stop. Be still and silent. Sense the quietness of that moment and visualise yourself stepping into an ocean of calm. Submerge your whole being in the quiet waters. As the waves of that calm ebb and flow, begin to unburden yourself. Slip into that place of no thinking and become completely still. Now, in that stillness, become aware of your 'original' self. This is the real, true you. Let it appear quietly but brilliantly. After some moments, emerge from the still waters and try to retain an awareness of the true you as you go back to your everyday affairs." ~Thought for Today-UK
"...the beach is the playground and theatre - space of summer." ~Mark Joseph Williams from The Guardian Australia
"The beach is where our souls realign with the universe, the horizon answers questions, the surroundings give us peace." ~from beach quote ~ by Boho Beach
"The cure for anything is salt water - tears, sweat, or the sea." ~Isak Dinesen
"The deepest rivers flow in silence." ~Anon
"The dream of my life is to lie down by a slow river and stare at the light in the trees - to learn something by being nothing." ~Mary Oliver
"The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle." ~Nicolaus Copernicus
"The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?" ~Georges Duhamel
"The tide gives to the shore; it also takes. Both are necessary for the right amount of shell and sand on the beach." ~Anna Pereira
"The tide recedes but leaves behind bright seashells on the sand." ~Beautiful Soul
"The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude.” ~from "The Awakening" By Kate Chopin
"The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet." ~Chanakya
"The water trapped in my window makes it like an aquarium—which makes me the fish." ~Jarod Kintz
"The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators." ~Edward Gibbon
“The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.” ~Thomas Carlyle on Influence
"Theosophy is the shoreless ocean of universal truth, love, and wisdom, reflecting its radiance on the earth." ~H.P. Blavatsky, The Key to Theosophy
"There are riches within us, as deep as the ocean." ~Kim Maree Goodall
“You can't stop the waves but you can learn how to surf.” ~Swami Muktananda
"You didn’t come into this world; you came out of it. Like a wave from the ocean." ~Alan Watts
"You drown not by falling into a river... but by staying submerged in it." ~Paulo Coelho
“You give them drink from your river of delights.” —Psalm 36:8
"You must give to the river the kindness you would give to any brother." ~Chief Seattle
"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty." ~Mahatma Gandhi
"You only need to stand near the ocean to feel the power of the universe and a closeness to the one who created it." ~Susan Gale
"Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them." -Russel Conwell
"Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths." ~Rumi
FROM Beach Chair Scientist
BEACH, SHORE, and WAVES
“After a visit to the beach, it’s hard to believe that we live in a material world.” ~Pam Shaw
“Catch a wave, and you’re sitting on top of the world.” ~The Beach Boys
“Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.” ~Loren Eiseley
“I could never stay long enough on the shore; the tang of the untainted, fresh, and free sea air was like a cool, quieting thought.” ~Helen Keller
“It’s hard for me to put into words why I like the beach so much. Everything about it is renewing for me, almost like therapy… Beach Therapy.” ~Amy Dykens
“It is particularly appropriate that we unveil this campaign on this first day of the annual international coastal clean-up effort, … Beach cleanups are something each of us can do any time of the year. I’m proud to be participating in the cleanup efforts today and I encourage everyone to make the time for these types of activities.” ~Ted Danson
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” ~Andre Gide
“My boat is on the shore,
And my bark is on the sea.”
~George Gordon Byron
“Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.” ~John Kenneth Galbraith
“Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life.” ~Tamora Pierce
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OCEAN
“A pool just isn’t the same as the ocean. It has no energy. No life.” ~Linda Gerber
“Because there’s nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it’s sent away.” ~Sarah Kay
“Even castles made from sand fall to the ocean” ~Jimi Hendrix
“I couldn’t imagine living in a state that didn’t reach the ocean. It was a giant reset button. You could go to the edge of the land and see infinity and feel renewed.” ~Avery Sawyer
"I felt the full breadth and depth of the ocean around the sphere of the Earth, back billions of years to the beginning of life, across all the passing lives and deaths, the endless waves of swimming joy and quiet losses of exquisite creatures with fins and fronds, tentacles and wings, colourful and transparent, tiny and huge, coming and going. There is nothing the ocean has not seen.” ~Sally Andrew
“I heard silence, silence infinite as the bottom of the ocean, a silence that sealed.” ~Anne Spollen
“I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.” ~Isaac Newton
“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
“If you like to eat seafood or swim in the ocean, it’s time to get involved.” ~Julie Evans-Brumm
“In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans” ~Khalil Gibran
“It is important to remember that the ocean’s resources are finite. The commitment these kids are making here today is a clear and compelling call to all of us to pay attention to our ocean.” ~Ted Danson
“It isn’t the oceans which cut us off from the world — it’s the American way of looking at things.” ~Henry Miller
“It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.” ~Hunter S. Thompson
“My soul is full of longing for the secrets of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me.” ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“No love is like an ocean with the dizzy procession of the waves’ boundaries …” ~Jack Spicer
“Ocean energy can contribute a great deal toward the protection or our atmosphere – without damaging marine ecosystems that are equally vital to the planet’s future.” ~Fred Krupp
“Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of non-knowledge.” ~Isaac Bashevis Singer
“The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.” ~Blaise Pascal
“The oceans deserve our respect and care, but you have to know something before you can care about it.” ~Sylvia Earle
“The ocean is a mighty harmonist.” ~William Wordsworth
“The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul.” ~Wyland
“The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach” ~Henry Beston
“To heal the ocean, we must heal ourselves.” ~Dr. Rod Fujita
“We are blessed with a magnificent and miraculous world ocean on this planet. But we are also stressing it in ways that we are not even close to bringing under control.” ~Carl Safina
“We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch – we are going back from whence we came…” ~John F. Kennedy
“We know that when we protect our oceans we’re protecting our future.” ~Bill Clinton
“We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.” ~Mother Teresa
"Your love should be a warm ocean breeze of smiles washing over someone's lips; an angel’s song whispering endlessly their ears; and the light of a thousand celestial sunrises radiating from your beautiful heart. That's love!" ~Robert Clancy
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SEA
“A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.” ~Jacques Yves Cousteau
“Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.” ~William Shakespeare
“For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It’s always our self we find in the sea.” ~E.E. Cummings
“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
“It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist: the threat is rather to life itself.” ~Rachel Carson
“My soul is full of longing for the secrets of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me.” ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal.” ~Jacques Yves Cousteau
“Only God almighty and naval research can save us from the perils of the sea.” ~John Warner
“The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.” ~Vincent Van Gogh
“The sea hath no king but God alone.” ~Dante Gabriel Rossetti
“The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can’t.” ~Christopher Paolini
“The sea is not a bargain basement.” ~Jacques Cousteau
“... the sea is one of the most beautiful and magnificent sights in Nature, all admit.” ~John Joly
“The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.” ~Jacques Yves Cousteau
“The sea! the sea! the open sea!,
The blue, the fresh, the ever free!” ~Bryan W. Procter
"The sea, to be happy, like hearts, must be stirred." ~Will Advise
“The sea will grant each man new hope, and sleep will bring dreams of home.” ~Christopher Columbus
“The tradition of freedom of the high seas has its roots in an era when there were too few people to seriously violate the oceans — but in hindsight that era ended some 150 years ago.” ~James Carlton
“The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof.” ~Elizabeth I, Queen of England
“The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.” ~Kate Chopin
“The waves of the sea help me get back to me.” ~Jill Davis
"There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.” ~Joseph Conrad
“There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about the sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.” ~Herman Melville
“There is the life of the plankton in almost endless variety; there are the many kinds of fish, both surface and bottom living; there are the hosts of different invertebrate creatures on the sea-floor; and there are those almost grotesque forms of pelagic life in the oceans depths. Then there are the squids and cuttlefish, and the porpoises, dolphins and great whales.” ~Sir Alister Hardy
“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
“To me, the sea is like a person–like a child that I’ve known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I swim in the sea I talk to it. I never feel alone when I’m out there.” ~Gertrude Ederle
“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 year, 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
Of an inland soul to sea,
Past the houses—past the headlands—
Into deep Eternity—
Bred as we, among the mountains,
Can the sailor understand
The divine intoxication
Of the first league out from land?"
~Emily Dickinson
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“Flow on, lovely Dee, flow on, thou sweet river,
Thy banks' purest stream shall be dear to me ever.”
~John Tait
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“Hark, now hear the sailors cry
smell the sea, and feel the sky
let your soul and spirit fly,
into the mystic.”
~Van Morrison
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I am of the sea,
my body
sea foam and sparkling algae,
rises to the surface
each time the sun
greets the waves’ cresting arch.
I am of the sea,
I am water through and through,
I glide,
I shimmer,
I float.
I ride the ebbs and flows,
I am carried as a child in its mother’s womb,
the tide, washing me out and ashore
cleansing all that is not necessary,
all that does not belong to water,
out of me.
The tide rolls in and kisses the shore,
and I am laid out in my full glorious form,
wrung through the layers of sea and sand,
each granule and drop tells me a secret,
tells me from where my soul comes.
I dance as the water crests in the light,
I bounce and jump
delighting in the charged water
that gives life
and peace
and love.
I am at home in the ocean,
I am at ease with the tides,
I am of the sea.
~Jill from I Must Be A Mermaid
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"I believe in the Ocean curing all bad moods
I believe in the waves wiping away worries
I believe in seashells bringing good luck
I believe in toes in the sand grounding my Soul."
~Anon
"Let me flow into the ocean
Let me get back to the sea
Let me stormy and let me be calm
Let the tide in,
I want it to rush over me...
~Pete Townsend
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"PEACEFUL WATERS"
"Thus, the first instruction toward Peace:
is not to be silent, nor to act on a roll of dice.
The first instruction toward Peace is:
One cannot step into the same water twice.
Thus, Peace I leave with you;
My peace I give to you.
And may it be so, world without end.
This being a Truth no human can undo.
For Peace comes from loving what ought never be un-loved,
from an eternal bell that cannot be unrung for any price….
Peace comes from ever knowing in love and in life,
one cannot step into the same water twice."
~Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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“Primeval forests! virgin sod!
That Saxon has not ravish’d yet,
Lo! peak on peak in stairways set—
In stepping stairs that reach to God!
Here we are free as sea or wind,
For here are set Time’s snowy tents
In everlasting battlements
Against the march of Saxon mind.”
~Joaquin Miller
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"Sometimes, you need the ocean light,
and colours you've never seen before
painted through an evening sky."
~David Whyte (Poet)
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"That crazed girl
improvising her music,
her poetry, dancing upon
the shore...
that girl I declare
A beautiful lofty thing, or
a thing heroically lost,
heroically found."
~Yeats
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"The Beach
where the sand is your seat
and the waves kiss your feet."
~Peace of the Beach
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"The ocean is such a romantic force in nature
Waltzing with the shores of the land
Every moment of the day.
Singing its song to the moon
Through the daytime and the night."
~Butterflies and Pebbles
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"We rest here while we can,
but we hear the ocean calling in our dreams,
And we know by the morning,
the wind will fill our sails to test the seams.
The calm is on the water and part of us
would linger by the shore.
For ships are safe in harbor,
but that's not what ships are for."
~Tom Kimmel and Michael Lille
(From the song: "Ships")
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"The river flows
To the open sea
I wish Time
You were a friend to me
I watch you pass by so fast
In a life
Where nothing could last"
~Kumar J. Sadhwani
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"A woman's heart is like a sea; it's both deep and rough and hides pearls." ~Moritz (Moses) Gottlieb Saphir
"A woman who is 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
"An anchor helps keep a ship safe in a storm, providing stability and protection from being tossed by waves." ~ Pastor Rick Warren
"Again we took to the beach for another day, walking along the shore of the resounding sea, determined to get it into us. We wished to associate with the ocean until it lost the pond-like look which it wears to a countryman." ~Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist.
"All habits gather by unseen degrees,
As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas." ~John Dryden
“All know that the drop merges into the ocean, but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.” ~Kabir
"All of life are about relationships. We are as waves in one sea, flowing into each other...and transforming each other...BEING EACH OTHER! No one is ever the same, or ever lost...every wave forever arises from, and returns to the one sea! ......Though the surface of the sea is forever moving and changing, there is the never changing silent stillness deep down below. We must learn to be...the wholeness of the sea!" ~Surf Reyes
"All storms of the heart will come to pass. There’s always a peaceful shoreline and a safe harbor touching all troubled waters. Sail on!" ~Robert Clancy
“All streams flow to the sea because it is lower than they are. Humility gives it its power." ~Lao Tzu
"And I saw the river over which every soul must pass to reach the kingdom of Heaven. And the name of that river was suffering. And I saw the boat which carries souls across the river. And the name of that boat was Love." ~St. John of the Cross
"And there was a sea. I was not prepared for the flood of emotion which swept over me when I saw it. I was stirred to the very depths of my being – tears filled my eyes – I trembled! For a moment it seemed passionately to me that I could never leave it again." ~L.M. Montgomery
November 11, 2012
"As I walk to the sea of thought, I find this shell beautiful and precious!" ~Precy Bierbaum
"A warm breeze blew through my window like a gentle wave lapping the sandy shore in summer at low tide, and as I took in a breath of air that blanketed my body like tall grass in a field I felt for just that moment in time, like I did when I was a child. I felt that I had not one worry, not one burden, nothing was on my mind except that breeze that made the curtains swell like balloons." ~Christina Pagliarulo
"An entire sea of water can't sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship. Similarly the negativity of the world can't put you down unless you allow it to get inside you." ~Goi Nasu
"As the ocean is never full of water, so is the heart never full of love." ~Irie, FB
"As I love nature, as I love singing birds, and gleaming stubble, and flowing rivers, and morning and evening, and summer and winter, I love thee, my Friend." ~Henry David Thoreau
“Be calm like a calm lake, then you will look beautiful like a beautiful calm lake!” ~Mehmet Murat Ildan
"Be grateful for the rough seas... even though they are difficult and sometimes so painful, it is by navigating through those waters that we acquire our greatest strength and perspectives on life." ~Life's a Dance
"Be still and you will hear the sound of your own ocean." ~I Must Be a Mermaid
"Be still like a mountain, and flow like a great river." ~Lao Tzu
"Because there's nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it's sent away." ~Sarah Kay
"Being close to water brings me closer to my soul." ~Steve Aitchison
"Bless the waters for they carry the love of the universe." ~Diana Cooper
"Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses." ~Horace
"Despite the sun fighting the clouds to come out, I'm enjoying my peaceful solitude walk with nothing but the sounds of the ocean waves rolling in." ~Mary (Miemie) V. Cowan
"Don't dive into the waters if one already set expectations. One's ocean might be just a lake to others."~Kenly Seanity
"Don't let the waves of others drown out your own ocean song. Hold your heart as though it was a seashell. And listen to it. Listen tot it's music. To the whispers of your ocean within. and then swim. Swim to your own ocean music." ~S.C Lourie
"Don't let your emotions drag you down. Let them flow through you as a gentle breeze ruffles the sea." ~I Must Be A Mermaid
"Don’t wait any longer. Dive in the ocean, leave and let the sea be you." ~Rumi
"Dreams are made of sand, sun and sea…" ~Anon
"Dreaming of being by the sea is never a wasted dream, a wasted time." ~Butterflies and Pebbles
"Driftwood and stones shaped by rivers and tides, recreated to capture the essence of nature." ~Rinnai Australia
"Don't let the waves of others drown out your own ocean song. Hold your heart as though it was a seashell. And listen to it. Listen tot it's music. To the whispers of your ocean within. and then swim. Swim to your own ocean music." ~S.C Lourie
"Don't let your emotions drag you down. Let them flow through you as a gentle breeze ruffles the sea." ~I Must Be A Mermaid
"Don’t wait any longer. Dive in the ocean, leave and let the sea be you." ~Rumi
"Dreams are made of sand, sun and sea…" ~Anon
"Dreaming of being by the sea is never a wasted dream, a wasted time." ~Butterflies and Pebbles
"Driftwood and stones shaped by rivers and tides, recreated to capture the essence of nature." ~Rinnai Australia
“Drink water from the spring where horses drink. The horse will never drink bad water." ~Saint Seraphim of Sarov
"Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the cast calm ocean." ~Ram Dass
"Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean." ~Anon
"Even if you never have the chance to see or touch the ocean, the ocean touches you with every breath you take, every drop of water you drink, every bite you consume. Everyone, everywhere is inextricably connected to and utterly dependent upon the existence of the sea.” ~Sylvia A. Earle, The World Is Blue
"Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it." ~ Norman Maclean
"Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the cast calm ocean." ~Ram Dass
"Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean." ~Anon
"Even if you never have the chance to see or touch the ocean, the ocean touches you with every breath you take, every drop of water you drink, every bite you consume. Everyone, everywhere is inextricably connected to and utterly dependent upon the existence of the sea.” ~Sylvia A. Earle, The World Is Blue
"Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it." ~ Norman Maclean
"Every lake belongs to the quietness desired by the swans.” ~Anon
"Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour." ~Giotto di Bondone
"Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid." ~Francis Bacon(1561-1626)
"For all is like an ocean, all flows and connects; touch it in one place and it echoes at the other end of the world." ~Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it- but sail we must, and not drift, nor lie at anchor." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea." ~Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
"Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour." ~Giotto di Bondone
"Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid." ~Francis Bacon(1561-1626)
"For all is like an ocean, all flows and connects; touch it in one place and it echoes at the other end of the world." ~Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it- but sail we must, and not drift, nor lie at anchor." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea." ~Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
Photo credit to Don Luman-ag
“Her happiness floated like waves of ocean along the coast of her life. She found lyrics of her life in his arms but she never sung her song.” ~ Santosh Kalwar from Beautiful Soul
"How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean." ~Arthur C. Clarke
"I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples." ~Mother Teresa
“I crave a love so deep, the ocean would be jealous." ~Pablo Neruda
"I do not belong inside the concrete jungle where the air grows thick with fumes and destruction. I belong where I can feel the earth with my bare feet and the rivers flow peacefully beneath the lush trees and their melodic friends. I belong with nature." ~Anon (from Waking Wonder)
"I dreamt we were sailing down a perfectly still stream." ~Not Long Left
"I feel like running away
and talk to the wind,
cry out to the waves of the ocean
and curl within their curves
as if they would hug me in comfort;
and the rustling leaves
are just soothing whispers of love,
assuring me that all is well.
In reality, that whispering
of love is true!"
~Leah C. Dancel,
1 February 2014
"I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
"I have always been fascinated by the ocean, to dip a limb beneath its surface and know that I'm touching eternity, that it goes on forever until it begins here again." ~Lauren DeStefano
"I've always believed that a mind that wasn't learning was as a body of water standing still, growing stagnant, but a mind willing and capable to grow, the possibilities are endless, as a rushing river or the mighty oceans." ~Christopher Livingston
"I have an ocean of courage buried somewhere inside me. I know this because I taste the salt every time I cry." ~Tyler Knott Gregson
"I've crossed oceans of time to find you." ~Bram Stoker
“I have sea foam in my veins, for I understand the language of waves.” ~Le Testament d’Orphee
"I have tried to capture the feeling of serenity that washes over you when you first dive into the cool waters of crystal-clear creek or river, silently gliding over the stones…calm, and in a world of your own." ~Laini Eckardt, Artist (Avant Card)
"I have written my questions into the ocean and the waves washed them away; suddenly I realise what the waves were saying: 'Let go, it will find its way.'" ~Anon
"I looked at the sea, searching for a reflection within the wavering mirror. I was amazed for what I have perceived. When I attempted to grasp it, the calm vision escaped with haste. Distraught but not broken, I will walk the vacant beaches searching for the calm reflection again." ~clouds98
"I have tried to capture the feeling of serenity that washes over you when you first dive into the cool waters of crystal-clear creek or river, silently gliding over the stones…calm, and in a world of your own." ~Laini Eckardt, Artist (Avant Card)
"I have written my questions into the ocean and the waves washed them away; suddenly I realise what the waves were saying: 'Let go, it will find its way.'" ~Anon
"I looked at the sea, searching for a reflection within the wavering mirror. I was amazed for what I have perceived. When I attempted to grasp it, the calm vision escaped with haste. Distraught but not broken, I will walk the vacant beaches searching for the calm reflection again." ~clouds98
"I love the Beauty of the reflection of the Beauty of the mountains and clouds above the surface of the water of the river." ~Leah C. Dancel, April 30, 2022 on the spectacular view of Lake McDonald of Glacier National Park by Jack Bell Photography, #tonguetwister
"I love the sea's sounds and the way it reflects the sky. The colours that shimmer across its surface are unbelievable. This, combined with the colour of the water over white sand, surprises me every time." ~John Dyer
"I promise you this: for all the tears you've cried there is someone who would swim just as many oceans just to get you." ~CWPoet
"I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, - except I think it is because in addition to the fact that the sea changes and the light changes, and ships change, it is because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have, in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came." ~John F. Kennedy
"I spin on the circle of wave upon wave of the sea." ~Pablo Neruda
"I was myself the compass of that sea. I was the world in which I walked, and what I saw or heard or felt came not but from myself. And there I found myself more truly and more strange." ~Wallace Stevens
"I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding." ~John O'Donohue
"I understand that everything is connected, that all roads meet, and that all rivers flow into the same sea." ~Paulo Coelho
"I want to be wild, beautiful and free just like the sea." ~Wendy Alviz Ocampo
"I want to go to the place where my only worry is if the tide is going to reach my chair." ~from wordables
"I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea." ~Anon
"Ideas are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny." ~Carl Schurz
"If only the waves could roll me over to you and wash me up on the beach; you could pick me up and cuddle ., then I will be with you." ~MPW
"If the ears of your soul love the soothing melody of gently whizzing winds through the leaves of trees in the jungle, if you understand the language of the flowers, if the eyes of your heart see and appreciate the beauty of the rainbows of corals in our seas and oceans, Gina Lopez is your sister by heart and soul." ~Ayari Naygnam
"If the spirit is strong, one will appear like a deep-flowing river, calm on the surface but with tremendous power hidden in the depths." ~Hideharu Onuma
"If you listen, not to the pages or preachers but to the smallest flower growing from a crack in your heart, you will hear a great song moving across a wide ocean whose water is the music; connecting all the islands of the universe together, and touching all you will feel it touching you around you, embracing you with light. It is in that light that everything lives and will always be alive." ~John Squadra
"I love the sea's sounds and the way it reflects the sky. The colours that shimmer across its surface are unbelievable. This, combined with the colour of the water over white sand, surprises me every time." ~John Dyer
"I promise you this: for all the tears you've cried there is someone who would swim just as many oceans just to get you." ~CWPoet
"I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, - except I think it is because in addition to the fact that the sea changes and the light changes, and ships change, it is because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have, in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came." ~John F. Kennedy
"I spin on the circle of wave upon wave of the sea." ~Pablo Neruda
"I was myself the compass of that sea. I was the world in which I walked, and what I saw or heard or felt came not but from myself. And there I found myself more truly and more strange." ~Wallace Stevens
"I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding." ~John O'Donohue
"I understand that everything is connected, that all roads meet, and that all rivers flow into the same sea." ~Paulo Coelho
"I want to be wild, beautiful and free just like the sea." ~Wendy Alviz Ocampo
"I want to go to the place where my only worry is if the tide is going to reach my chair." ~from wordables
"I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea." ~Anon
"Ideas are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny." ~Carl Schurz
"If only the waves could roll me over to you and wash me up on the beach; you could pick me up and cuddle ., then I will be with you." ~MPW
"If the ears of your soul love the soothing melody of gently whizzing winds through the leaves of trees in the jungle, if you understand the language of the flowers, if the eyes of your heart see and appreciate the beauty of the rainbows of corals in our seas and oceans, Gina Lopez is your sister by heart and soul." ~Ayari Naygnam
"If the spirit is strong, one will appear like a deep-flowing river, calm on the surface but with tremendous power hidden in the depths." ~Hideharu Onuma
"If you listen, not to the pages or preachers but to the smallest flower growing from a crack in your heart, you will hear a great song moving across a wide ocean whose water is the music; connecting all the islands of the universe together, and touching all you will feel it touching you around you, embracing you with light. It is in that light that everything lives and will always be alive." ~John Squadra
"If you would taste love, drink of the pure stream that youth pours out at your feet. Do not wait till it has become a muddy river before you stoop to catch its waves." ~Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927)
"In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is a story of the earth." ~Rachel Carson (1907-1964)
"In stillness like the mountain; in motion like the river." ~Wang Zong Yue
“In the depth of the deep, you’re ocean of wisdom.” ~Gede Prama
"In water we are one and only one. It is only when we step away from water that we forget who we are and struggle endlessly trying to find our way back to the sea." ~Shara Gardner
"…it's always ourselves we find in the sea." ~E.E. Cummings
"It's not the size of the ship. It's the movement of the ocean that propels the ship." ~Marcos Garcia
"It's time to get your feet wet. Dip into life's ocean of renewal. Listen to the whisper of your soul. Let fear wash away and make the dream happen now." ~Jody Doty (©2016 Meditations and Musings by Jody Doty)
"It takes an island to save an ocean." ~Philippe Cousteau
"It was November — the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds, deep, sad hymns of the sea, passionate wind-songs in the pines." ~L. M. Montgomery
"In water we are one and only one. It is only when we step away from water that we forget who we are and struggle endlessly trying to find our way back to the sea." ~Shara Gardner
"…it's always ourselves we find in the sea." ~E.E. Cummings
"It's not the size of the ship. It's the movement of the ocean that propels the ship." ~Marcos Garcia
"It's time to get your feet wet. Dip into life's ocean of renewal. Listen to the whisper of your soul. Let fear wash away and make the dream happen now." ~Jody Doty (©2016 Meditations and Musings by Jody Doty)
"It takes an island to save an ocean." ~Philippe Cousteau
"It was November — the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds, deep, sad hymns of the sea, passionate wind-songs in the pines." ~L. M. Montgomery
"Just breathe ... and let the sea soothe your soul." ~I Must Be A Mermaid, FB
"Just let go - and fall like a little waterfall.. While people are struggling unhappily in the cities against the cruel authorities, a waterfall happily and cheerfully flows in the nature; there is happiness only if there is freedom!" ~Mehmet Murat Ildan
"Keep sailing no matter how rough is the ocean...til you reach the seashore of hope." ~Juvilla Mcgowran
“Let love be the peace-filled ocean your heart swims in from now until the end of time.” ~Robert Clancy
"Let the mountains talk, let the river run. Once more, and forever.” ~David R. Brower
"Let the ocean's lullaby bring calm and peace to your heart and soul." ~JMAB, I Must Be A Mermaid
"Let the waters of the ocean wash away the dust of the day and sweetly cradle you as you sleep." ~I Must Be A Mermaid
"Let the waves carry love and light into your day." ~I Must be a Mermaid/jmab
“Let the waves of the universe rise and fall as they will. You have nothing to gain or lose. You are the ocean.“ ~Ashtavakra Gita
"Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river." ~Malagasy Proverb
"Let your soul swim in the sea...
Feel the water's embrace...
The sun will warm your heart...
And the rhythm of the waves
Will rock you gently to peace."
~JMAB, I Must Be A Mermaid
"Life is like a raging river. Resist or struggle and it will surely bowl you over. Surrender to it, and it will carry you to wonderful places." ~Fiona, The Healing Room
"Life is like a seashore; the waves come crashing, rocks erode away and the current pulls out, yet ... You still go with flow." ~Anon
“Life is like an ocean. It can be calm and still or rough and rigid. But in the end it’s always beautiful.” ~Anon
"Life is like sailing. You can use any wind to go in any direction." ~Robert Brault
"Like a wave from the ocean, we flow from the energy of our own lives and the places we call home." ~ Rae (Serendipity)
"Little trickles of water turn stones into sand....with time." ~Hedda Joy Tady Tan
"Love has no uttermost, as the stars have no number and the sea no rest." ~Eleanor Farjeon
"Let the ocean's lullaby bring calm and peace to your heart and soul." ~JMAB, I Must Be A Mermaid
"Let the waters of the ocean wash away the dust of the day and sweetly cradle you as you sleep." ~I Must Be A Mermaid
"Let the waves carry love and light into your day." ~I Must be a Mermaid/jmab
“Let the waves of the universe rise and fall as they will. You have nothing to gain or lose. You are the ocean.“ ~Ashtavakra Gita
"Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river." ~Malagasy Proverb
"Let your soul swim in the sea...
Feel the water's embrace...
The sun will warm your heart...
And the rhythm of the waves
Will rock you gently to peace."
~JMAB, I Must Be A Mermaid
"Life is like a raging river. Resist or struggle and it will surely bowl you over. Surrender to it, and it will carry you to wonderful places." ~Fiona, The Healing Room
"Life is like a seashore; the waves come crashing, rocks erode away and the current pulls out, yet ... You still go with flow." ~Anon
“Life is like an ocean. It can be calm and still or rough and rigid. But in the end it’s always beautiful.” ~Anon
"Life is like sailing. You can use any wind to go in any direction." ~Robert Brault
"Like a wave from the ocean, we flow from the energy of our own lives and the places we call home." ~ Rae (Serendipity)
"Little trickles of water turn stones into sand....with time." ~Hedda Joy Tady Tan
"Love has no uttermost, as the stars have no number and the sea no rest." ~Eleanor Farjeon
"Love is a river. Drink from it." ~Rumi
"Love is like a gentle breeze that cascades through your entire being, filling every fiber with emotion so deep your heart grows wings."~Kristalee Berry
"Love is the most beautiful ocean your heart can ever swim in." ~Robert Clancy
"Love is the river of life in the world." ~Anon from Jenolan Caves
"Love, like a river, will cut a new path whenever it meets an obstacle." ~Crystal Middlemas
"Love is like a gentle breeze that cascades through your entire being, filling every fiber with emotion so deep your heart grows wings."~Kristalee Berry
"Love is the most beautiful ocean your heart can ever swim in." ~Robert Clancy
"Love is the river of life in the world." ~Anon from Jenolan Caves
"Love, like a river, will cut a new path whenever it meets an obstacle." ~Crystal Middlemas
“Love rests on no foundation. It is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end.” ~Rumi
"Love: There’s nothing sweeter than the fragrance of unconditional love. Be that beautiful ocean of flowering kindness." ~Robert Clancy
“Love was like the waves in the sea, gentle and good sometimes, rough and terrible at others, but that it was endless and stronger than the sky and earth and everything in between.” ~Veronica Rossi, Through the Ever Night
“My course is set for an uncharted sea.” ~Dante Alighieri From Paradise
"My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea and the heart of the ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me." ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Nevertheless, the drinking of intoxicants is almost universal; not so much because men are greedy as because they are cold and wish to be warmed, or unhappy and wish to forget - or simply because the water available to them is not fit to drink." ~Anon
"No life can be barren which hears the whisper of the wind in the branches, or the voice of the sea as it breaks upon the shore; and no soul can lack happiness looking up into the midnight stars." ~William Winter
“No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning.” ~Native American Proverb
“Nobody can build the bridge for you to walk across the river of life, only you yourself alone. There are, to be sure, countless paths and bridges and demi-gods which would carry you across this river; but only at the cost of yourself; you would pawn yourself and lose.” ~F. W. Nietzsche, “Untimely Meditations”
"Oceans separate lands not souls." ~from Love and Peace is all We Need
"On her serene ocean the restless mind relaxes, thoughts drift of their own accord to the stillness within." ~Anon
"On the still calm waters of surrender, the reflections of clarity appear." ~Bryant McGill
"Once you carry your own water, you will learn the value of every drop." ~Anon
"Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money." ~Cree Proverb
"Open your palms and your body to the pain. It comes in waves like a tide, and you must be open as a vessel lying on the beach, letting it fill you up and then, retreating, leaving you empty and clear. . . . With a deep breath--it has to be as deep as the pain--one reaches a kind of inner freedom from pain, as though the pain were not yours, but your body's. The spirit lays the body on the altar." ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"Our children no longer learn how to read the great Book of Nature from their own direct experience or how to interact creatively with the seasonal transformations of the planet. They seldom learn where their water comes from or where it goes. We no longer coordinate our human celebration with the great liturgy of the heavens." ~Wendell Berry
"Our memories of the ocean will linger on, long after our footprints in the sand are gone." ~Anon
"People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering." ~St. Augustine, Early Christian Priest, Author
"Poetry is a river; many voices travel in it; poem after poem moves along in the exciting crests and falls of the river waves. None is timeless; each arrives in an historical context; almost everything, in the end, passes. But the desire to make a poem, and the world's willingness to receive it--indeed the world's need of it--these never pass." ~MARY OLIVER
"Read a thousand books and your words will flow like a river." ~Virginia Woolf
"Reason and faith are both banks of the same river." ~Doménico Cieri Estrada
“Rivers don’t drink their own waters; trees don’t eat their own fruits. The salt seasons the soup in order to have its purpose fulfilled. Live for others!” ~Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords, Goodreads
"Rivers flow not past, but through us; tingling, vibrating, exciting every cell and fiber in our bodies, making them sing and glide." ~John Muir
"Salt is born of the purest of parents: the sun and the sea." ~Phythagoras
"Seeing the ocean reminds us of our place on the planet: limited in space and time." ~Martin Dickinson
“She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air.”
~Holly Black (The Beauty of a Woman)
“She reminded me of the sea; the way she came dancing towards you, wild and beautiful, and just when she was almost close enough to touch she'd rush away again.” ~Glenda Millard (The Beauty of a Woman)
“She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent hours on the riverbank... and had midnight swims...” ~Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things from Goodreads
"Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind." ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors." ~African Proverb
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” ~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
"Some people survive and talk about it. Some people survive and go silent. Everyone deals with unimaginable pain in their own way, and everyone is entitled to that, without judgment. So the next time you look at someone's life covetously, remember … you may not want to endure what they are enduring right now, at this moment, whilst they sit so quietly before you, looking like a calm ocean on a sunny day. Remember how vast the ocean's boundaries are. Whilst somewhere the water is calm, in another place in the very same ocean, there is a colossal storm." ~Nikita Gill
"Take a moment whenever you remember just to stop. Be still and silent. Sense the quietness of that moment and visualise yourself stepping into an ocean of calm. Submerge your whole being in the quiet waters. As the waves of that calm ebb and flow, begin to unburden yourself. Slip into that place of no thinking and become completely still. Now, in that stillness, become aware of your 'original' self. This is the real, true you. Let it appear quietly but brilliantly. After some moments, emerge from the still waters and try to retain an awareness of the true you as you go back to your everyday affairs." ~Thought for Today-UK
"...the beach is the playground and theatre - space of summer." ~Mark Joseph Williams from The Guardian Australia
"The beach is where our souls realign with the universe, the horizon answers questions, the surroundings give us peace." ~from beach quote ~ by Boho Beach
"The cure for anything is salt water - tears, sweat, or the sea." ~Isak Dinesen
"The deepest rivers flow in silence." ~Anon
"The dream of my life is to lie down by a slow river and stare at the light in the trees - to learn something by being nothing." ~Mary Oliver
"The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle." ~Nicolaus Copernicus
"The environment is in us, not outside of us. The trees are our lungs, the rivers our bloodstream. We are all interconnected, and what you do to the environment, ultimately you do to yourself." ~Ian Somerhalder
"The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too." ~Vincent Van Gogh
"The kind things we do daily are like the streams that build up the river of our conscience." ~Marinela Reka
"The moon reflected in the water is not the real moon, but still it has tremendous beauty; and if the waters of your mind are silent, then the moon reflected in those waters is exactly the same." ~Osho
"The ocean depends on both high and low tides for it's magnificence. We are no different and shouldn't wish away any wave that's not surf perfect. Accepting ALL of our emotions is key." ~Lorie Rogerson
"The ocean is where my heart naturally goes to at night time. I am longing for the seashores knight." ~Butterflies and Pebbles
"The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul." ~Wyland Marine Life
"The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire oceAn is affected by a pebble." ~Blaine Pascal
"The Lord's paths also run across the rivers" ~Isak Dinesen from Babette's Feast
“The miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill.” ~Robert Burton
"The mind is like a butterfly that flits from one flower to the next. Seldom do we find ourselves nestled in the exquisite and eternal ocean of here and now. When you are, you can connect with your true self that is beyond the chattering of your mind. When you take the effort to focus your drifting consciousness to become fully awake to the present moment, you will discover the glorious light that dwells within you." ~Denise Linn
"The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too." ~Vincent Van Gogh
"The kind things we do daily are like the streams that build up the river of our conscience." ~Marinela Reka
"The moon reflected in the water is not the real moon, but still it has tremendous beauty; and if the waters of your mind are silent, then the moon reflected in those waters is exactly the same." ~Osho
"The ocean depends on both high and low tides for it's magnificence. We are no different and shouldn't wish away any wave that's not surf perfect. Accepting ALL of our emotions is key." ~Lorie Rogerson
"The ocean is where my heart naturally goes to at night time. I am longing for the seashores knight." ~Butterflies and Pebbles
"The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul." ~Wyland Marine Life
"The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire oceAn is affected by a pebble." ~Blaine Pascal
"The Lord's paths also run across the rivers" ~Isak Dinesen from Babette's Feast
“The miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill.” ~Robert Burton
"The mind is like a butterfly that flits from one flower to the next. Seldom do we find ourselves nestled in the exquisite and eternal ocean of here and now. When you are, you can connect with your true self that is beyond the chattering of your mind. When you take the effort to focus your drifting consciousness to become fully awake to the present moment, you will discover the glorious light that dwells within you." ~Denise Linn
"The mountains are our brothers, the rivers our sisters, the air our breath, the land our kin. And we are all connected." ~Chief Seattle
"The ocean is my peace." ~I Must Be A Mermaid
"The ocean is my well. It replenishes all that I am. It is there that I feel whole." ~JMAB, I Must Be A Mermaid
"The river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence." ~Jim Watkins
'The sand and ocean water tend to take all worries and pain away." ~Janna (a single mum)
"The sand beneath my feet, the water between my toes, the smell of the ocean breeze and the sunset setting in the distance. In this moment, I am completely aware of my connection to life." ~Kevin Hall
"The sea allows us to return to our purist and most authentic selves. Dive in. Leave everything but your truest essence." ~I Must Be A Mermaid
“The sea complains upon a thousand shores.” ~Alexander Smith
“The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach – waiting for a gift from the sea.” ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"The sea hath fish for every man." ~William Camden
"The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides."~Jules Verne
"The sea never changes and its works, for all the talk of men, are wrapped in mystery." ~from "Typhoon" by Joseph Conrad
"The sea—this truth must be confessed—has no generosity. No display of manly qualities—courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness—has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power." ~Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
"The song of the sea sings so perfectly the melody of our hearts." ~Butterflies and Pebbles
"The sound of waves were like music as they lapped on the shore." ~Leah C. Dancel, 31 January 2009, Whale Watching Blog
"The sound of waves crashing on the shore is the most relaxing sounds on earth." ~Anon from Carpe Diem 365
"The sun bathe itself in water." ~Isak Dinesen, Babette's Feast Movie
"The ocean is my peace." ~I Must Be A Mermaid
"The ocean is my well. It replenishes all that I am. It is there that I feel whole." ~JMAB, I Must Be A Mermaid
"The river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence." ~Jim Watkins
'The sand and ocean water tend to take all worries and pain away." ~Janna (a single mum)
"The sand beneath my feet, the water between my toes, the smell of the ocean breeze and the sunset setting in the distance. In this moment, I am completely aware of my connection to life." ~Kevin Hall
"The sea allows us to return to our purist and most authentic selves. Dive in. Leave everything but your truest essence." ~I Must Be A Mermaid
“The sea complains upon a thousand shores.” ~Alexander Smith
“The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach – waiting for a gift from the sea.” ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"The sea hath fish for every man." ~William Camden
"The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides."~Jules Verne
"The sea never changes and its works, for all the talk of men, are wrapped in mystery." ~from "Typhoon" by Joseph Conrad
"The sea—this truth must be confessed—has no generosity. No display of manly qualities—courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness—has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power." ~Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
"The song of the sea sings so perfectly the melody of our hearts." ~Butterflies and Pebbles
"The sound of waves were like music as they lapped on the shore." ~Leah C. Dancel, 31 January 2009, Whale Watching Blog
"The sound of waves crashing on the shore is the most relaxing sounds on earth." ~Anon from Carpe Diem 365
"The sun bathe itself in water." ~Isak Dinesen, Babette's Feast Movie
"The sun is empty, so is the moon. River water forever flows eastward. Farm and house too are empty, continually changing owners." ~Li Ka-shing, Hong Kong's richest man, "Sunset Ballad".
"The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?" ~Georges Duhamel
"The tide gives to the shore; it also takes. Both are necessary for the right amount of shell and sand on the beach." ~Anna Pereira
"The tide recedes but leaves behind bright seashells on the sand." ~Beautiful Soul
"The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude.” ~from "The Awakening" By Kate Chopin
"The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet." ~Chanakya
"The water trapped in my window makes it like an aquarium—which makes me the fish." ~Jarod Kintz
"The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators." ~Edward Gibbon
“The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.” ~Thomas Carlyle on Influence
"Theosophy is the shoreless ocean of universal truth, love, and wisdom, reflecting its radiance on the earth." ~H.P. Blavatsky, The Key to Theosophy
"There are riches within us, as deep as the ocean." ~Kim Maree Goodall
‘‘There’s a reason we are drawn to gazing at the ocean. It is said the ocean provides a closer reflection of who we are than any mirror.’’ ~Terence Finch
"There is an ocean inside us. An ocean of thought, of feeling, of love." ~I Must Be A Mermaid
“There's nothing wrong with enjoying looking at the surface of the ocean itself, except that when you finally see what goes on underwater, you realise that you've been missing the whole point of the ocean. Staying on the surface all the time is like going to the circus and staring at the outside of the tent.” ~Dave Barry
"They knew that life was not always a beach. But each wave was certainly much easier to ride with good friends by their side." ~Anna Taylor
"Those who cross the sea, change the sky, but not soul." ~Horace
"Throw your troubles into the ocean and let the waves carry them away." ~Mystic Mermaid
"Time is like a river. You cannot touch the same water twice, because the glow that has passed will never pass again. Enjoy every moment of your life." ~Anon
“Tonight, we took the first giant leap over the mountains of waves of the dark and unchartered seas of our destiny. What tomorrow will bring, only the events will teach us in its hour. The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today. Let us meet the challenge of the future because it is in the blood of Filipino s... never to retreat nor to surrender despite the overwhelming odds.” ~Atty. Romeo S. Occeña, Sr. (Posted by Jossef Dancel Occeña, grandson)
“Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward."~E.E. Cummings
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." ~H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"Understanding is like water flowing in a stream. Wisdom and knowledge are solid and can block our understanding." ~Thich Nhat Hanh
"Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does..” ~Margaret Atwood
"Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong." ~Lao Tzu
"Water is really sacred. Water is life. Mother Earth doesn't need us, we need her … We shouldn't have to fight for our water, we should just be able to have clean drinking water." ~Autumn Peltier
"Water is the driving force of all nature." ~Leonardo da Vinci
"We all have a sea inside us; can you hear it? Can you hear the ocean roaring?" ~Diana Hardy
"We are all the leaves in one tree.
We are all the waves in one sea."
~Thich Nhat Hanh
"There is an ocean inside us. An ocean of thought, of feeling, of love." ~I Must Be A Mermaid
“There's nothing wrong with enjoying looking at the surface of the ocean itself, except that when you finally see what goes on underwater, you realise that you've been missing the whole point of the ocean. Staying on the surface all the time is like going to the circus and staring at the outside of the tent.” ~Dave Barry
"They knew that life was not always a beach. But each wave was certainly much easier to ride with good friends by their side." ~Anna Taylor
"Those who cross the sea, change the sky, but not soul." ~Horace
"Throw your troubles into the ocean and let the waves carry them away." ~Mystic Mermaid
"Time is like a river. You cannot touch the same water twice, because the glow that has passed will never pass again. Enjoy every moment of your life." ~Anon
“Tonight, we took the first giant leap over the mountains of waves of the dark and unchartered seas of our destiny. What tomorrow will bring, only the events will teach us in its hour. The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today. Let us meet the challenge of the future because it is in the blood of Filipino s... never to retreat nor to surrender despite the overwhelming odds.” ~Atty. Romeo S. Occeña, Sr. (Posted by Jossef Dancel Occeña, grandson)
“Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward."~E.E. Cummings
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." ~H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"Understanding is like water flowing in a stream. Wisdom and knowledge are solid and can block our understanding." ~Thich Nhat Hanh
"Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does..” ~Margaret Atwood
"Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong." ~Lao Tzu
"Water is really sacred. Water is life. Mother Earth doesn't need us, we need her … We shouldn't have to fight for our water, we should just be able to have clean drinking water." ~Autumn Peltier
"Water is the driving force of all nature." ~Leonardo da Vinci
"We all have a sea inside us; can you hear it? Can you hear the ocean roaring?" ~Diana Hardy
"We are all the leaves in one tree.
We are all the waves in one sea."
~Thich Nhat Hanh
"We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep." ~William James
"We are the captains of our own ships sailing the sea of life, but in times of a stormy weather, you will discover true friends when they don't hesitate to be a lighthouse." ~Dodinsky
"We have been looking for the burning bush, the parting of the sea, the bellowing voice from heaven. Instead we should be looking at the ordinary day-to-day events in our lives for evidence of the miraculous." ~M. Scott Peck
“We live on the veranda of the world's greatest island. It's our birthright to have a clean ocean, to catch a feed, to interact with nature. And, like any birthright, we have to safeguard it.” ~Tim Winton, Australian author and Patron of the Australian Marine Conservation Society (SEA AND ME BY BLUEBOTTLE FILMS CHANNEL)
“We must begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future generations.” ~David Brower
"What is any ocean but a multitude of drops?" ~David Mitchell
"When enough water builds up behind the blockage, eventually it will push the blockage away." ~Anon
"When storms rage and the ship of life is tossed on the waves, remember He is still at the helm and is Captain of all." ~Francis Gay (The Book of Friendship 1998, a very special gift from Maurice Ware)
"When the blood in your veins returns to the sea, and the earth in your bones returns to the ground, perhaps then you will remember that this land does not belong to you. It is you who belong to this land." ~Native Americans
"When the waves are rough, and you are tossed from shore to shore. SAIL ON." ~Anon
"When time comes for us to again rejoin the infinite stream of water flowing to and from the great timeless ocean, our little droplet of soulful water will once again flow with the endless stream." ~William E. Marks, The Holy Order Of Water
"When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?" ~Ralph Marston
"When you are a young person, you are like a young creek, and you meet many rocks, many obstacles and difficulties on your way. You hurry to get past these obstacles and get to the ocean. But as the creek moves down through the fields, it becomes larger and calmer and it can enjoy the reflection of the sky. It's wonderful. You will arrive at the sea anyway so enjoy the journey. Enjoy the sunshine, the sunset, the moon, the birds, the trees, and the many beauties along the way. Taste every moment of your daily life." ~Thich Nhat Hanh
"When you are experiencing rough waters, trust that a brighter tomorrow is waiting for you on the other side. Hang tight and ride the storm. You will get through it. Never give up and Believe..." ~Sherry Kane, I Am Complete Woman
"When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy." ~Rumi
"When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.” ~Leonardo da Vinci
“When you truly sing, you sing yourself free. When you truly dance, you dance yourself free. When you walk in the mountains or swim in the sea, again, you set yourself free.” ~Jay Woodman
"When your soul resides in deep waters, you learn to ignore the waves on the surface." ~Anon
“Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.” ~Robert Henri
"Wide sea, that one continuous murmur breeds along the pebbled shore of memory!" ~John Keats
"Without water drops, there can be no oceans; without steps, there can be no stairs; without little things, there can be no big things!" ~Mehmet Murat ildan
"You are not a single drop in the ocean, you are the entire ocean in a single drop." ~Rumi
"You are of the breathing earth and turbulence of the seas. Keep calm and silence as your closest allies." ~SANGKI HASSAN SINGAYAO (Lifted from Rolaiza Mimi Singayao's Saturday walks: Papa & Mimi; Saduc, Marawi
"You are the sound of the ocean, the breath of fresh air, the brightest light and the darkest corner." ~Jac Vanek
"You broke the ocean in half to be there, only to meet nothing that wants you." ~Nayyirah Waheed
"You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore." ~Christopher Columbus
"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water." ~Rabindranath Tagore
"We are the captains of our own ships sailing the sea of life, but in times of a stormy weather, you will discover true friends when they don't hesitate to be a lighthouse." ~Dodinsky
"We have been looking for the burning bush, the parting of the sea, the bellowing voice from heaven. Instead we should be looking at the ordinary day-to-day events in our lives for evidence of the miraculous." ~M. Scott Peck
“We live on the veranda of the world's greatest island. It's our birthright to have a clean ocean, to catch a feed, to interact with nature. And, like any birthright, we have to safeguard it.” ~Tim Winton, Australian author and Patron of the Australian Marine Conservation Society (SEA AND ME BY BLUEBOTTLE FILMS CHANNEL)
“We must begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future generations.” ~David Brower
"What is any ocean but a multitude of drops?" ~David Mitchell
"When enough water builds up behind the blockage, eventually it will push the blockage away." ~Anon
"When storms rage and the ship of life is tossed on the waves, remember He is still at the helm and is Captain of all." ~Francis Gay (The Book of Friendship 1998, a very special gift from Maurice Ware)
"When the blood in your veins returns to the sea, and the earth in your bones returns to the ground, perhaps then you will remember that this land does not belong to you. It is you who belong to this land." ~Native Americans
"When the waves are rough, and you are tossed from shore to shore. SAIL ON." ~Anon
"When time comes for us to again rejoin the infinite stream of water flowing to and from the great timeless ocean, our little droplet of soulful water will once again flow with the endless stream." ~William E. Marks, The Holy Order Of Water
"When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?" ~Ralph Marston
"When you are a young person, you are like a young creek, and you meet many rocks, many obstacles and difficulties on your way. You hurry to get past these obstacles and get to the ocean. But as the creek moves down through the fields, it becomes larger and calmer and it can enjoy the reflection of the sky. It's wonderful. You will arrive at the sea anyway so enjoy the journey. Enjoy the sunshine, the sunset, the moon, the birds, the trees, and the many beauties along the way. Taste every moment of your daily life." ~Thich Nhat Hanh
"When you are experiencing rough waters, trust that a brighter tomorrow is waiting for you on the other side. Hang tight and ride the storm. You will get through it. Never give up and Believe..." ~Sherry Kane, I Am Complete Woman
"When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy." ~Rumi
"When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.” ~Leonardo da Vinci
“When you truly sing, you sing yourself free. When you truly dance, you dance yourself free. When you walk in the mountains or swim in the sea, again, you set yourself free.” ~Jay Woodman
"When your soul resides in deep waters, you learn to ignore the waves on the surface." ~Anon
“Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.” ~Robert Henri
"Wide sea, that one continuous murmur breeds along the pebbled shore of memory!" ~John Keats
"Without water drops, there can be no oceans; without steps, there can be no stairs; without little things, there can be no big things!" ~Mehmet Murat ildan
"You are not a single drop in the ocean, you are the entire ocean in a single drop." ~Rumi
"You are of the breathing earth and turbulence of the seas. Keep calm and silence as your closest allies." ~SANGKI HASSAN SINGAYAO (Lifted from Rolaiza Mimi Singayao's Saturday walks: Papa & Mimi; Saduc, Marawi
"You are the sound of the ocean, the breath of fresh air, the brightest light and the darkest corner." ~Jac Vanek
"You broke the ocean in half to be there, only to meet nothing that wants you." ~Nayyirah Waheed
"You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore." ~Christopher Columbus
"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water." ~Rabindranath Tagore
"You can't fill a bucket with water if it's already full of sand." ~Estelle Cortes
“You can't stop the waves but you can learn how to surf.” ~Swami Muktananda
"You didn’t come into this world; you came out of it. Like a wave from the ocean." ~Alan Watts
"You drown not by falling into a river... but by staying submerged in it." ~Paulo Coelho
“You give them drink from your river of delights.” —Psalm 36:8
"You must give to the river the kindness you would give to any brother." ~Chief Seattle
"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty." ~Mahatma Gandhi
"You only need to stand near the ocean to feel the power of the universe and a closeness to the one who created it." ~Susan Gale
"Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them." -Russel Conwell
"Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths." ~Rumi
FROM Beach Chair Scientist
BEACH, SHORE, and WAVES
“After a visit to the beach, it’s hard to believe that we live in a material world.” ~Pam Shaw
“Catch a wave, and you’re sitting on top of the world.” ~The Beach Boys
“Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.” ~Loren Eiseley
“I could never stay long enough on the shore; the tang of the untainted, fresh, and free sea air was like a cool, quieting thought.” ~Helen Keller
“It’s hard for me to put into words why I like the beach so much. Everything about it is renewing for me, almost like therapy… Beach Therapy.” ~Amy Dykens
“It is particularly appropriate that we unveil this campaign on this first day of the annual international coastal clean-up effort, … Beach cleanups are something each of us can do any time of the year. I’m proud to be participating in the cleanup efforts today and I encourage everyone to make the time for these types of activities.” ~Ted Danson
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” ~Andre Gide
“My boat is on the shore,
And my bark is on the sea.”
~George Gordon Byron
“Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.” ~John Kenneth Galbraith
“Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life.” ~Tamora Pierce
⚓ ⚓ ⚓ ⚓ ⚓
OCEAN
“A pool just isn’t the same as the ocean. It has no energy. No life.” ~Linda Gerber
“Because there’s nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it’s sent away.” ~Sarah Kay
“Even castles made from sand fall to the ocean” ~Jimi Hendrix
“I couldn’t imagine living in a state that didn’t reach the ocean. It was a giant reset button. You could go to the edge of the land and see infinity and feel renewed.” ~Avery Sawyer
"I felt the full breadth and depth of the ocean around the sphere of the Earth, back billions of years to the beginning of life, across all the passing lives and deaths, the endless waves of swimming joy and quiet losses of exquisite creatures with fins and fronds, tentacles and wings, colourful and transparent, tiny and huge, coming and going. There is nothing the ocean has not seen.” ~Sally Andrew
“I heard silence, silence infinite as the bottom of the ocean, a silence that sealed.” ~Anne Spollen
“I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.” ~Isaac Newton
“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
“If you like to eat seafood or swim in the ocean, it’s time to get involved.” ~Julie Evans-Brumm
“In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans” ~Khalil Gibran
“It is important to remember that the ocean’s resources are finite. The commitment these kids are making here today is a clear and compelling call to all of us to pay attention to our ocean.” ~Ted Danson
“It isn’t the oceans which cut us off from the world — it’s the American way of looking at things.” ~Henry Miller
“It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.” ~Hunter S. Thompson
“My soul is full of longing for the secrets of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me.” ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“No love is like an ocean with the dizzy procession of the waves’ boundaries …” ~Jack Spicer
“Ocean energy can contribute a great deal toward the protection or our atmosphere – without damaging marine ecosystems that are equally vital to the planet’s future.” ~Fred Krupp
“Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of non-knowledge.” ~Isaac Bashevis Singer
“The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.” ~Blaise Pascal
“The oceans deserve our respect and care, but you have to know something before you can care about it.” ~Sylvia Earle
“The ocean is a mighty harmonist.” ~William Wordsworth
“The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul.” ~Wyland
“The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach” ~Henry Beston
“To heal the ocean, we must heal ourselves.” ~Dr. Rod Fujita
“We are blessed with a magnificent and miraculous world ocean on this planet. But we are also stressing it in ways that we are not even close to bringing under control.” ~Carl Safina
“We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch – we are going back from whence we came…” ~John F. Kennedy
“We know that when we protect our oceans we’re protecting our future.” ~Bill Clinton
“We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.” ~Mother Teresa
"Your love should be a warm ocean breeze of smiles washing over someone's lips; an angel’s song whispering endlessly their ears; and the light of a thousand celestial sunrises radiating from your beautiful heart. That's love!" ~Robert Clancy
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SEA
“A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.” ~Jacques Yves Cousteau
“Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.” ~William Shakespeare
“For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It’s always our self we find in the sea.” ~E.E. Cummings
“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
“It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist: the threat is rather to life itself.” ~Rachel Carson
“My soul is full of longing for the secrets of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me.” ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal.” ~Jacques Yves Cousteau
“Only God almighty and naval research can save us from the perils of the sea.” ~John Warner
“The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.” ~Vincent Van Gogh
“The sea hath no king but God alone.” ~Dante Gabriel Rossetti
“The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can’t.” ~Christopher Paolini
“The sea is not a bargain basement.” ~Jacques Cousteau
“... the sea is one of the most beautiful and magnificent sights in Nature, all admit.” ~John Joly
“The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.” ~Jacques Yves Cousteau
“The sea! the sea! the open sea!,
The blue, the fresh, the ever free!” ~Bryan W. Procter
"The sea, to be happy, like hearts, must be stirred." ~Will Advise
“The sea will grant each man new hope, and sleep will bring dreams of home.” ~Christopher Columbus
“The tradition of freedom of the high seas has its roots in an era when there were too few people to seriously violate the oceans — but in hindsight that era ended some 150 years ago.” ~James Carlton
“The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof.” ~Elizabeth I, Queen of England
“The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.” ~Kate Chopin
“The waves of the sea help me get back to me.” ~Jill Davis
"There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.” ~Joseph Conrad
“There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about the sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.” ~Herman Melville
“There is the life of the plankton in almost endless variety; there are the many kinds of fish, both surface and bottom living; there are the hosts of different invertebrate creatures on the sea-floor; and there are those almost grotesque forms of pelagic life in the oceans depths. Then there are the squids and cuttlefish, and the porpoises, dolphins and great whales.” ~Sir Alister Hardy
“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
“To me, the sea is like a person–like a child that I’ve known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I swim in the sea I talk to it. I never feel alone when I’m out there.” ~Gertrude Ederle
“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 year, 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
"We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep." ~William James
“Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.” ~Robert Henri
“With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you’re connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live.” ~Sylvia Earle
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"A father is neither an anchor to hold us back, nor a sail to take us there, but a guiding light whose love shows us the way." ~Anon
"A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water." ~Carl Reiner
"A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns." ~Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
"A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder." ~Eileen Caddy
"A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers 'waterfall-like.' ~Vernon Howard
“Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.” ~Robert Henri
“With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you’re connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live.” ~Sylvia Earle
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"A father is neither an anchor to hold us back, nor a sail to take us there, but a guiding light whose love shows us the way." ~Anon
"A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water." ~Carl Reiner
"A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns." ~Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
"A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder." ~Eileen Caddy
"A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers 'waterfall-like.' ~Vernon Howard
“As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.” ~John Muir
"Changing your life often begins with the inner work. It can be a tender process of stripping away the beliefs and dreams that no longer resonate for you. It is not an easy path, but it is worth it. Because one day soon you will be standing on the shore of a brighter tomorrow. One that feels like home and is big enough to hold all of you." ~Illuminating Souls
"Don't worry if you're making waves simply by being yourself. The moon does it all the time." ~Scott Stabile
"Changing your life often begins with the inner work. It can be a tender process of stripping away the beliefs and dreams that no longer resonate for you. It is not an easy path, but it is worth it. Because one day soon you will be standing on the shore of a brighter tomorrow. One that feels like home and is big enough to hold all of you." ~Illuminating Souls
"Don't worry if you're making waves simply by being yourself. The moon does it all the time." ~Scott Stabile
“Everyone must believe in something. I believe I'll go canoeing.” ~Henry David Thoreau
"Find the places in life where you can hear the whisper of the wind, the waves and your soul." ~Jon T Hermosisima
"Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered." ~William Shakespeare
"Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.” ~Vicki Harrison
"I could fall asleep to the sound of waves crashing, every night." ~Beach Therapy
"I dreamt we were sailing down a perfectly still stream." ~Not Long Left from Poem Hunter
"Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered." ~William Shakespeare
"Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.” ~Vicki Harrison
"I could fall asleep to the sound of waves crashing, every night." ~Beach Therapy
"I dreamt we were sailing down a perfectly still stream." ~Not Long Left from Poem Hunter
"I love the sounds and the power of pounding water, whether it is the waves or a waterfall." ~Mike May
"I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony." ~Gustave Flaubert
“If we don’t manage this resource, we will be left with a diet of jellyfish and plankton stew.” ~Daniel Pauly
"In every drop of water, there is a story of life." ~Unattributed
"Let the cleansing waters of time and love and peace and joy wash away your cares and your burdens." ~Nancy Rainwater
“If we don’t manage this resource, we will be left with a diet of jellyfish and plankton stew.” ~Daniel Pauly
"In every drop of water, there is a story of life." ~Unattributed
"Let the cleansing waters of time and love and peace and joy wash away your cares and your burdens." ~Nancy Rainwater
"Let the waves carry you where the light can not." ~Mohit Kaushik
"Life is a beautiful wave." ~Ben Thouard
"Like sands through the hour glass, so are the days of our lives…" ~Macdonald Carey
"Limitless and immortal, the waters are the beginning and end of all things on earth.” ~Heinrich Zimmer
"Love means the warmth of the sun, the aroma of a rose, the breeze of the sea, but as you can see it never means the same for anyone. Love acquires its true meaning by experiencing it for the first time because only then can you define it." ~Nestor Gallardo
"Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves un distorted. Only in quiet mind is adequate perception of the world." ~Hans Margolius
"Pearls don't lie on the seashore. If you want one, you must dive for it." ~Chinese Proverb
"People say walking on water is a miracle, but to me walking peacefully on earth is the real miracle." ~Thich Nhat Hanh
"Life is a beautiful wave." ~Ben Thouard
"Like sands through the hour glass, so are the days of our lives…" ~Macdonald Carey
"Limitless and immortal, the waters are the beginning and end of all things on earth.” ~Heinrich Zimmer
"Love means the warmth of the sun, the aroma of a rose, the breeze of the sea, but as you can see it never means the same for anyone. Love acquires its true meaning by experiencing it for the first time because only then can you define it." ~Nestor Gallardo
"Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves un distorted. Only in quiet mind is adequate perception of the world." ~Hans Margolius
"Pearls don't lie on the seashore. If you want one, you must dive for it." ~Chinese Proverb
"People say walking on water is a miracle, but to me walking peacefully on earth is the real miracle." ~Thich Nhat Hanh
"Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake." ~Wallace Stevens
"Poetry for me is like the mountain, like the ocean or the sky. It helps in evoking or mapping many emotions that we keep within ourselves in few lines while leaving much space for those who encounter them to form their own stories too. Without any limits or positions, It’s a freedom. It can be one word or many." ~Tenzin Choegyal, poetry ambassador
"Some of the greatest minds on earth live in the seas." ~A.D. Williams
"Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows." ~Charles Buxton
"Some of the greatest minds on earth live in the seas." ~A.D. Williams
"Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows." ~Charles Buxton
"Swim often and you will feel on earth like the fish in the water." ~Saint Seraphim of Sarov
"The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too." ~Vincent Van Gogh
"The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder–a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you." ~Carlyle
"The moon is essentially gray, no color. It looks like plaster of Paris, like dirty beach sand with lots of footprints in it." ~James A. Lovell
“The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight.” ~M.F.K. Fischer
"The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too." ~Vincent Van Gogh
"The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder–a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you." ~Carlyle
"The moon is essentially gray, no color. It looks like plaster of Paris, like dirty beach sand with lots of footprints in it." ~James A. Lovell
“The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight.” ~M.F.K. Fischer
“The sound of a waterfall is nature’s lullaby.” ~Sophie Marland
"... the sound of waves alters wave patterns in the brain, lulling you into a deeply relaxed state to rejuvenate the mind and body." ~from Boho Beach Gypsy
"The sound of the waves were like music as they lapped on the shore." ~Leah C. Dancel, 31 January 2009, Whale Watching Blog
"... the sound of waves alters wave patterns in the brain, lulling you into a deeply relaxed state to rejuvenate the mind and body." ~from Boho Beach Gypsy
"The sound of the waves were like music as they lapped on the shore." ~Leah C. Dancel, 31 January 2009, Whale Watching Blog
"The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world." ~Zhuangzi
“There is a waterfall in every dream. Cool and crystal clear, it falls gently on the sleeper, cleansing the mind and soothing the soul.” ~Virginia Alison
“There is a waterfall in every dream. Cool and crystal clear, it falls gently on the sleeper, cleansing the mind and soothing the soul.” ~Virginia Alison
"There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore..." ~ Lord Byron
"Today is a smooth white seashell. Hold it close, and listen to the beauty of the hours." ~Anon
"Waterfalls wouldn't sound so melodious if there weren't rocks in their way." ~Rishabh Gautam
"You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf." ~Jon Kabat-Zinn
"Today is a smooth white seashell. Hold it close, and listen to the beauty of the hours." ~Anon
"Waterfalls wouldn't sound so melodious if there weren't rocks in their way." ~Rishabh Gautam
"You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf." ~Jon Kabat-Zinn
VERSES:
"And every sea-god pays a gem,
Yearly out of his watery cell,
To deck great Neptune's diadem." ~Thomas Campion
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"Are the waves reaching
for the sun, the moon?
Or do they come to extinguish
the seas power in the sand?
I will meet the waves
where they are born,
and listen to their dreams.
I will jump in the sea."
~John Patrick Shankey
"... catch the gleaming of a random light,
That tells me that the ship
I seek is passing, passing."
~Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
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"And every sea-god pays a gem,
Yearly out of his watery cell,
To deck great Neptune's diadem." ~Thomas Campion
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"Are the waves reaching
for the sun, the moon?
Or do they come to extinguish
the seas power in the sand?
I will meet the waves
where they are born,
and listen to their dreams.
I will jump in the sea."
~John Patrick Shankey
That tells me that the ship
I seek is passing, passing."
~Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
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"Every peaceful sunrise is born to shine upon your beautiful heart.
"Every wave in the ocean is meant to flow over your precious soul."
Every star in in the universe shines for your loving spirit."
~Robert Clancy
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"Exultation is the going Of an inland soul to sea,
Past the houses—past the headlands—
Into deep Eternity—
Bred as we, among the mountains,
Can the sailor understand
The divine intoxication
Of the first league out from land?"
~Emily Dickinson
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“Flow on, lovely Dee, flow on, thou sweet river,
Thy banks' purest stream shall be dear to me ever.”
~John Tait
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“Hark, now hear the sailors cry
smell the sea, and feel the sky
let your soul and spirit fly,
into the mystic.”
~Van Morrison
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I am of the sea,
my body
sea foam and sparkling algae,
rises to the surface
each time the sun
greets the waves’ cresting arch.
I am of the sea,
I am water through and through,
I glide,
I shimmer,
I float.
I ride the ebbs and flows,
I am carried as a child in its mother’s womb,
the tide, washing me out and ashore
cleansing all that is not necessary,
all that does not belong to water,
out of me.
The tide rolls in and kisses the shore,
and I am laid out in my full glorious form,
wrung through the layers of sea and sand,
each granule and drop tells me a secret,
tells me from where my soul comes.
I dance as the water crests in the light,
I bounce and jump
delighting in the charged water
that gives life
and peace
and love.
I am at home in the ocean,
I am at ease with the tides,
I am of the sea.
~Jill from I Must Be A Mermaid
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"I believe in the Ocean curing all bad moods
I believe in the waves wiping away worries
I believe in seashells bringing good luck
I believe in toes in the sand grounding my Soul."
~Anon
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"Let me flow into the ocean
Let me get back to the sea
Let me stormy and let me be calm
Let the tide in,
I want it to rush over me...
~Pete Townsend
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"PEACEFUL WATERS"
"Thus, the first instruction toward Peace:
is not to be silent, nor to act on a roll of dice.
The first instruction toward Peace is:
One cannot step into the same water twice.
Thus, Peace I leave with you;
My peace I give to you.
And may it be so, world without end.
This being a Truth no human can undo.
For Peace comes from loving what ought never be un-loved,
from an eternal bell that cannot be unrung for any price….
Peace comes from ever knowing in love and in life,
one cannot step into the same water twice."
~Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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“Primeval forests! virgin sod!
That Saxon has not ravish’d yet,
Lo! peak on peak in stairways set—
In stepping stairs that reach to God!
Here we are free as sea or wind,
For here are set Time’s snowy tents
In everlasting battlements
Against the march of Saxon mind.”
~Joaquin Miller
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"Sometimes, you need the ocean light,
and colours you've never seen before
painted through an evening sky."
~David Whyte (Poet)
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"That crazed girl
improvising her music,
her poetry, dancing upon
the shore...
that girl I declare
A beautiful lofty thing, or
a thing heroically lost,
heroically found."
~Yeats
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"The Beach
where the sand is your seat
and the waves kiss your feet."
~Peace of the Beach
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"The ocean is such a romantic force in nature
Waltzing with the shores of the land
Every moment of the day.
Singing its song to the moon
Through the daytime and the night."
~Butterflies and Pebbles
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"We rest here while we can,
but we hear the ocean calling in our dreams,
And we know by the morning,
the wind will fill our sails to test the seams.
The calm is on the water and part of us
would linger by the shore.
For ships are safe in harbor,
but that's not what ships are for."
~Tom Kimmel and Michael Lille
(From the song: "Ships")
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"The river flows
To the open sea
I wish Time
You were a friend to me
I watch you pass by so fast
In a life
Where nothing could last"
~Kumar J. Sadhwani
5 March 2011 Eden NSW
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