"Non Degener Addam" (I add without loss)
7/25/11
Madelyn Griffith-Haynie -integrity
"Integrity is when what you say, what you do, what you think and who you are, all come from the same place." ~Madelyn Griffith-Haynie
Thought for Today - New Perspective
"It is easy to create new things, change places or do something different. To keep that sense of newness that creates enthusiasm is more difficult. The secret of newness in life is not to do new things constantly, but to see everything you do with new eyes, new insights and a new perspective." ~Thought for Today-UK
Blair - want
"If you really want something, you don’t stop for anyone or anything until you get it." ~Blair
John Locke Quotes
"A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty." ~John Locke on Ignorance
"A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world." ~John Locke
"As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears." ~John Locke
"Thought the familiar use of the things about us, takes off our wonder; yet it cures not our ignorance." ~John Locke (1632-1704)
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"A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world." ~John Locke
"As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears." ~John Locke
"Thought the familiar use of the things about us, takes off our wonder; yet it cures not our ignorance." ~John Locke (1632-1704)
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Barnett R. Brickner -right mate
“Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.” ~Barnett R. Brickner
Igor Stravinsky Quotes
"I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it." ~Igor Stravinsky
“Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.” ~Igor Stravinsky
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Thought for Today - Precious Gifts
"More valuable than the things we give to each other are the gifts of virtues we pass on quietly to others through our selfless and noble actions. These gifts are truly precious because they are imperishable and they multiply the more we share them." ~Thought for Today-UK
THE BUDDHA Quotes
"A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity." ~Buddha
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[“A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.”
“Stop, stop. Do not speak. The ultimate truth is not even to think.”
“However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?”
~ The Buddha]
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"A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others." ~Buddha
"All that we are is the result of what we have thought." ~Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama)
"Appearance comes from one's Spirit. " ~Buddha
"As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust, do not burden your heart with judgments but rain your kindness equally on all." ~Buddha
"As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life." ~Gautama Buddha
"At the end of the way is freedom. Till then, patience." ~Buddha
"Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts." ~Buddha
"Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide." ~Buddha
"Carry out your good deeds with a stout heart, and you shall be happy, content and without suffering." ~The Buddha
"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment." ~Buddha
"Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most." ~Buddha
"Endurance is one of the most difficult discipline, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes." ~Buddha
"As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust, do not burden your heart with judgments but rain your kindness equally on all." ~Buddha
"As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life." ~Gautama Buddha
"At the end of the way is freedom. Till then, patience." ~Buddha
"Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts." ~Buddha
"Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide." ~Buddha
"Carry out your good deeds with a stout heart, and you shall be happy, content and without suffering." ~The Buddha
"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment." ~Buddha
Photo: Princess Highway to Canberra
When morning breaks the dawn
"Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most." ~Buddha
"Endurance is one of the most difficult discipline, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes." ~Buddha
"Every human being is the author of his own health or disease." ~Gautama Buddha
"From attachment comes grief, from attachment comes fear; he who is free from attachment knows neither grief nor fear." ~The Buddha
"Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love. This is an unending truth." ~Buddha
"He on Continous Hell never dies. Longevity is a great hardship in Continuous Hell." ~Buddha
"He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye." ~Buddha
"HEALTH is the greatest gift, CONTENTMENT the greatest wealth, FAITHFULNESS the best relationship." ~Buddha
"From attachment comes grief, from attachment comes fear; he who is free from attachment knows neither grief nor fear." ~The Buddha
"Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love. This is an unending truth." ~Buddha
"He on Continous Hell never dies. Longevity is a great hardship in Continuous Hell." ~Buddha
"He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye." ~Buddha
"HEALTH is the greatest gift, CONTENTMENT the greatest wealth, FAITHFULNESS the best relationship." ~Buddha
"Heart is not a basket for keeping tension and sadness. It is a golden box for keeping roses of happiness and sweet memories." ~Buddha's Teaching
"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned." ~Buddha
"However many holy words you read, however many holy words you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them." ~Gautama Buddha
"I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done." ~Buddha
"If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change." ~Gautama Buddha
"If we could spread love as quickly as we spread hate and negativity, what an amazing world we would live in." ~Buddha
"If you cannot find a good companion to walk with, walk alone, like an elephant roaming the jungle. It is better to be alone than to be with those who will hinder your progress." ~Buddha
"If you light a lamp for somebody else it will also brighten your path." ~Buddha
"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned." ~Buddha
"However many holy words you read, however many holy words you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them." ~Gautama Buddha
"I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done." ~Buddha
"If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change." ~Gautama Buddha
"If we could spread love as quickly as we spread hate and negativity, what an amazing world we would live in." ~Buddha
"If you cannot find a good companion to walk with, walk alone, like an elephant roaming the jungle. It is better to be alone than to be with those who will hinder your progress." ~Buddha
"If you light a lamp for somebody else it will also brighten your path." ~Buddha
"If you truly love yourself, you could never hurt another." ~Buddha
"If you want to fly, give up everything that weighs you down." ~Buddha
“If you want to know your past, look into your present conditions. If you want to know your future, look into your present actions.” ~Buddhist saying
"If you want to stop hurting yourself, you must get rid of your anger and become loving instead. When you hate others, you yourself become unhappy. But when you love others, everyone is happy." ~Buddha
"If you want wisdom, empty your heart of ignorance. If you want contentment, empty your heart of greed. If you want serenity, empty your heart of ill will." ~Buddha
"If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete." ~Buddha
"In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you." ~Buddha
"In the end these things matter most:
How well did you love?
How fully did you love?
How deeply did you learn to let go?"
~The Buddha
"It is better to live one day ethically and reflectively than to live a hundred years immoral and unrestrained." ~The Buddha
"If you want to stop hurting yourself, you must get rid of your anger and become loving instead. When you hate others, you yourself become unhappy. But when you love others, everyone is happy." ~Buddha
"If you want wisdom, empty your heart of ignorance. If you want contentment, empty your heart of greed. If you want serenity, empty your heart of ill will." ~Buddha
"If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete." ~Buddha
"In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you." ~Buddha
"In the end these things matter most:
How well did you love?
How fully did you love?
How deeply did you learn to let go?"
~The Buddha
"It is better to live one day ethically and reflectively than to live a hundred years immoral and unrestrained." ~The Buddha
“It is better to travel well than to arrive.” ~Buddha
"It is far better to conquer your own mind than to win a thousand battles" ~The Buddha
"It is proper for you to doubt ... do not go upon report ... do not go upon tradition ... do not go upon hearsay." ~The Buddha
"Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life." ~Buddha
“Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.” ~Gautama Buddha
"Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom." ~Buddha
"Look within. Be still. Free from fear and attachment, know the sweet joy of the way." ~Buddha
"Looking into [a lake] the beholder measures the depth of his own nature." ~Buddha
"Love the whole world as a mother loves her only child." ~Buddha
"Meditate.
Live purely.
Be quiet.
Do your work with mastery.
Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds!
Shine" ~Buddha
"Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom." ~Buddha
"More than those who hate you, more than all your enemies, an undisciplined mind does greater harm." ~Buddha
"No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path." ~Buddha
"On life's journey
FAITH is nourishment
Virtuous Deeds are a shelter
Wisdom is the light by day and
Right mindfulness is the protection by night
If a man lives a PURE life, nothing can destroy him
If he has conquered GREED, nothing can limit his Freedom."
~Buddha
"The lotus flower blooms most beautifully from the deepest and the thickest mud." ~Buddhist Proverb
"The mind is everything. What you think you become." ~Buddha
"The night is long to the wakeful, a distance of ten miles is long to the weary; the road of life and death is long to fools who do not know the truth." ~Buddha
"The one at peace sleeps pleasantly, having abandoned victory and defeat." ~Buddha
"The only way to bring peace to the earth is to learn to make our own life peaceful." ~Buddha
"The perfume of sandalwood, the scent of rosebay and jasmine, travel only as far as the wind. But the fragrance of goodness travels with us through all the worlds. Like garlands woven from a heap of flowers, fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds." ~Buddha
"The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it." ~Buddha
"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly." ~Buddha
"The stages of the Noble Path are: Right View, Right Thought, Right Speech, Right Behavior, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness and Right Concentration." ~Buddha
"The trouble is, you think you have time." ~Buddha
"The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart." ~Buddha
"The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve." ~Buddha
“There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.” ~Lord Buddha
"There are two types of immature people: 1) Those who do not see their own mistakes as mistakes, and 2) Those who do not forgive mistakes committed by others." ~The Buddha
"There is having flowers in Spring, breezes in Summer, moon in Autumn, snows in Winter. If there is nothing worrying over you, it will be the best seasons at all times." ~Buddha
"There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills." ~Buddha
"This Ariyan Eightfold Path, that is to say: Right view, right aim, right speech, right action, right living, right effort, right mindfulness, right contemplation." ~Buddha
"This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning." ~Buddha
Photo credit to Dance with Me in the Heart
"What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday and our present thoughts build our life tomorrow. Our life is the creation of our mind." ~The Buddha
"What you are is what you have been. What you'll be is what you do now." ~Buddha
"When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble." ~Buddha
"When a person long absent from home returns safely from afar, relatives, friends, and well-wishers rejoice at his return. In the same way, when one who has done good is gone from this world to the beyond, his good deeds receive him, like relatives receiving a returning loved one." ~Buddha
"When the clouds fly, the moon travels. When the boat sails, the shore moves." ~The Buddha
"When words are both true and kind, they can change the world." ~Buddha
OTHERS
"May you be at peace.
May your heart remain open.
May you awaken to the light
of your own true nature.
May you be healed.
May you be a source
of healings of all beings."
~Tibetan Buddhist Prayer
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"It is far better to conquer your own mind than to win a thousand battles" ~The Buddha
"It is proper for you to doubt ... do not go upon report ... do not go upon tradition ... do not go upon hearsay." ~The Buddha
"Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life." ~Buddha
“Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.” ~Gautama Buddha
"Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom." ~Buddha
"Look within. Be still. Free from fear and attachment, know the sweet joy of the way." ~Buddha
"Looking into [a lake] the beholder measures the depth of his own nature." ~Buddha
"Love the whole world as a mother loves her only child." ~Buddha
"Meditate.
Live purely.
Be quiet.
Do your work with mastery.
Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds!
Shine" ~Buddha
"Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom." ~Buddha
"More than those who hate you, more than all your enemies, an undisciplined mind does greater harm." ~Buddha
"No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path." ~Buddha
"On life's journey
FAITH is nourishment
Virtuous Deeds are a shelter
Wisdom is the light by day and
Right mindfulness is the protection by night
If a man lives a PURE life, nothing can destroy him
If he has conquered GREED, nothing can limit his Freedom."
~Buddha
"One should train in [three] deeds of merit -- generosity, a balanced life, developing a loving mind -- that yield long-lasting happiness." ~Buddha
"Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them. This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible." ~The Dalai Lama
"Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion." ~Buddha
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” ~Buddha
"Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion." ~Buddha
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” ~Buddha
“Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow come and go like the wind. To be happy, rest like a giant tree in the midst of them all.” ~The Buddha
"Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, and you will be filled with joy." ~Buddha
"Silence is an empty space. Space is the home of the awakened mind." ~Buddha
"Silence isn't empty. It's full of answers." ~Buddha
"Since everything is a reflection of our minds, everything can be changed by our minds." ~Gautama Buddha
"Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity." ~Buddha
“The forest is a peculiar organism of unlimited kindness and benevolence that makes no demands for its sustenance and extends generously the products of its life activity; it affords protection to all beings, offering shade even to the axe-man who destroys it.” ~Gautama Buddha
"The greatest gift is health. The greatest wealth is contentedness. The greatest virtue in relationships is trust. The greatest happiness is Nirvana." ~The Buddha
"The greatest gift is to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest." ~Buddha
"The greatest prayer is patience." ~Buddha (Siddharta Gautama)
"The innocent who suffers insults, whips and chains, whose weapon is endurance and whose army is character-that person I call holy." ~Buddha
"Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, and you will be filled with joy." ~Buddha
"Silence is an empty space. Space is the home of the awakened mind." ~Buddha
"Silence isn't empty. It's full of answers." ~Buddha
"Since everything is a reflection of our minds, everything can be changed by our minds." ~Gautama Buddha
"Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity." ~Buddha
“The forest is a peculiar organism of unlimited kindness and benevolence that makes no demands for its sustenance and extends generously the products of its life activity; it affords protection to all beings, offering shade even to the axe-man who destroys it.” ~Gautama Buddha
"The greatest gift is health. The greatest wealth is contentedness. The greatest virtue in relationships is trust. The greatest happiness is Nirvana." ~The Buddha
"The greatest gift is to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest." ~Buddha
"The greatest prayer is patience." ~Buddha (Siddharta Gautama)
"The innocent who suffers insults, whips and chains, whose weapon is endurance and whose army is character-that person I call holy." ~Buddha
CTTO
"The lotus flower blooms most beautifully from the deepest and the thickest mud." ~Buddhist Proverb
"The mind is everything. What you think you become." ~Buddha
"The night is long to the wakeful, a distance of ten miles is long to the weary; the road of life and death is long to fools who do not know the truth." ~Buddha
"The one at peace sleeps pleasantly, having abandoned victory and defeat." ~Buddha
"The only way to bring peace to the earth is to learn to make our own life peaceful." ~Buddha
"The perfume of sandalwood, the scent of rosebay and jasmine, travel only as far as the wind. But the fragrance of goodness travels with us through all the worlds. Like garlands woven from a heap of flowers, fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds." ~Buddha
"The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it." ~Buddha
"The richest person is not the one who owns the most, but the one who needs the least to feel enough." ~Buddha
"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly." ~Buddha
"The stages of the Noble Path are: Right View, Right Thought, Right Speech, Right Behavior, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness and Right Concentration." ~Buddha
"The trouble is, you think you have time." ~Buddha
"The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart." ~Buddha
"The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve." ~Buddha
“There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.” ~Lord Buddha
"There are two types of immature people: 1) Those who do not see their own mistakes as mistakes, and 2) Those who do not forgive mistakes committed by others." ~The Buddha
"There is having flowers in Spring, breezes in Summer, moon in Autumn, snows in Winter. If there is nothing worrying over you, it will be the best seasons at all times." ~Buddha
"There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills." ~Buddha
"This Ariyan Eightfold Path, that is to say: Right view, right aim, right speech, right action, right living, right effort, right mindfulness, right contemplation." ~Buddha
"This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning." ~Buddha
"Those who are awake live in a constant state of amazement." ~Buddha
“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” ~Buddha
"Three things that can not be hidden: the sun, the moon and the truth." ~Buddha
"Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace." ~Buddha
"Those who really seek the path to Enlightenment dictate terms to their mind. Then they proceed with strong determination." ~Buddha
"Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness." ~Buddha
"Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared." ~Buddha
"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon and the truth." ~Buddha
"To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear." ~Buddha
“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” ~Buddha
"Three things that can not be hidden: the sun, the moon and the truth." ~Buddha
"Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace." ~Buddha
"Those who really seek the path to Enlightenment dictate terms to their mind. Then they proceed with strong determination." ~Buddha
"Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness." ~Buddha
"Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared." ~Buddha
"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon and the truth." ~Buddha
"To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear." ~Buddha
"To understand everything is to forgive everything” ~Buddha
"True love is born from understanding." ~Gautama Buddha
"Trust no one and nothing, but only what you will see for yourself and experience." ~Buddha
"Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked, than it is loved by the good." ~Buddha
"We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves." ~Buddha
"True love is born from understanding." ~Gautama Buddha
"Trust no one and nothing, but only what you will see for yourself and experience." ~Buddha
"Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked, than it is loved by the good." ~Buddha
"We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves." ~Buddha
"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world." ~Gautama Buddha
"What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday and our present thoughts build our life tomorrow. Our life is the creation of our mind." ~The Buddha
"What you are is what you have been. What you'll be is what you do now." ~Buddha
"When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble." ~Buddha
"When a person long absent from home returns safely from afar, relatives, friends, and well-wishers rejoice at his return. In the same way, when one who has done good is gone from this world to the beyond, his good deeds receive him, like relatives receiving a returning loved one." ~Buddha
"When the clouds fly, the moon travels. When the boat sails, the shore moves." ~The Buddha
"When words are both true and kind, they can change the world." ~Buddha
“When you cease expecting, you have everything.” ~Buddha
"With our thoughts we make the world." ~Buddha
"Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world." ~Buddha
"You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection." ~Buddha
"With our thoughts we make the world." ~Buddha
"Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world." ~Buddha
"You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection." ~Buddha
"You don't lose friends, because real friends can never be lost. You lose people masquerading as friends, and you're better for it." ~e-buddhism
"You only lose what you cling to." ~Buddha
"You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger." Buddha
"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection." ~Buddha
"Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it." ~Gautama Buddha
"Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it." ~Buddha
"You only lose what you cling to." ~Buddha
"You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger." Buddha
"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection." ~Buddha
"Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it." ~Gautama Buddha
"Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it." ~Buddha
"Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts." ~Buddha
OTHERS
"May you be at peace.
May your heart remain open.
May you awaken to the light
of your own true nature.
May you be healed.
May you be a source
of healings of all beings."
~Tibetan Buddhist Prayer
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Bobby Knight - learn to write
"All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things." ~Bobby Knight
Kenneth Goode - smile
"No matter how much madder it may make you, get out of bed forcing a smile. You may not smile because you are cheerful; but if you will force yourself to smile, you'll end up laughing. You will be cheerful because you smile. Repeated experiments prove that when man assumes the facial expressions of a given mental mood — any given mood — then that mental mood itself will follow." ~Kenneth Goode
OVID Quotes
Publius Ovidus Naso
Others:
"A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace." ~Ovid
“A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.” ~Ovid
"All things change, nothing is extinguished.... There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement." ~Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid)
"According to the state of a man's conscience, so do hope and fear on account of his deeds arise in his mind. [Lat., Conscia mens ut cuique sua est, ita concipit intra Pectora pro facto spemque metumque suo.]" ~Ovid
"Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you." ~Ovid
"First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, 'I believe,' three times." ~Ovid
"Fortune and love favor the brave." ~Ovid
"Have patience and endure: this unhappiness will one day be beneficial." ~Ovid
"If you count the sunny and cloudy days of the whole year, you will find that the sunshine predominates." ~Ovid
"Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish." ~Ovid
"Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name." ~Ovid
"Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses." ~Ovid
“Omnia mutantur, nihil interit (everything changes, nothing perishes).” ~Ovid, Metamorphoses
“Pursuits become habits. [Lat., Abeunt studia in mores.]” ~Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) on Habit
"Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop." ~Ovid
"The drop excavates the stone, not with force but by falling often." ~Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid)
"The least strength suffices to break what is bruised. [Lat., Minimae vires frangere quassa valent.]" ~Ovid
"The need has gone; the memorial thereof remains. [Lat., Factum abiit; monumenta manent.]" ~Ovid
"Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the soul." ~Ovid
"What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless. [Lat., Leniter ex merito quidquid patiare ferendum est, Quae venit indigne poena dolenda venit.]" ~Ovid
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Verse
“I grabbed a pile of dust,
And holding it up,
Foolishly asked for as many birthdays
As the grains of sand.
I forgot to
Ask that they be years
Of youth. ” ~Ovid
Ovid’s famous mock epic—a treasury of myth and magic that is one of the greatest literary works of classical antiquity—is rendered into fluidly poetic English by world-renowned translator Allen Mandelbaum. Roman poet Ovid’s dazzling cycle of tales begins with the creation of the world and ends with the deification of Caesar Augustus. In between is a glorious panoply of the most famous myths and legends of the ancient Greek and Roman world—from Echo’s passion for Narcissus to Pygmalion’s living statue, from Perseus’s defeat of Medusa to the fall of Troy. Retold with Ovid’s irreverent flair, these tales are united by the theme of metamorphosis, as men and women are rendered alien to themselves, turned variously to flowers, trees, animals, and stones. The closest thing to a central character is love itself—a confounding, transforming, irrational force that makes fools of gods and mortals alike. The poem’s playful verses, both sensually earthy and wittily sophisticated, have reverberated through the centuries, inspiring countless artists and writers from Shakespeare to the present. Frequently translated, imitated, and adapted, The Metamorphoses has lost none of its power to provoke and entertain. (Everyman's Library)
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Biography
Ovid was born in Sulmo (modern Sulmona), in an Apennine valley east of Rome, to an important equestrian family, on this day in 43 BC.
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"We have ploughed the vast ocean in a fragile bark. [Lat., Nos fragili vastum ligno sulcavimus aequor.]" ~Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) on Navigation
Others:
"A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace." ~Ovid
“A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.” ~Ovid
"All things change, nothing is extinguished.... There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement." ~Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid)
"According to the state of a man's conscience, so do hope and fear on account of his deeds arise in his mind. [Lat., Conscia mens ut cuique sua est, ita concipit intra Pectora pro facto spemque metumque suo.]" ~Ovid
"Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you." ~Ovid
"First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, 'I believe,' three times." ~Ovid
"Fortune and love favor the brave." ~Ovid
"Have patience and endure: this unhappiness will one day be beneficial." ~Ovid
"If you count the sunny and cloudy days of the whole year, you will find that the sunshine predominates." ~Ovid
"Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish." ~Ovid
"Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name." ~Ovid
"Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses." ~Ovid
“Omnia mutantur, nihil interit (everything changes, nothing perishes).” ~Ovid, Metamorphoses
“Pursuits become habits. [Lat., Abeunt studia in mores.]” ~Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) on Habit
"Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop." ~Ovid
"The drop excavates the stone, not with force but by falling often." ~Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid)
"The least strength suffices to break what is bruised. [Lat., Minimae vires frangere quassa valent.]" ~Ovid
"The need has gone; the memorial thereof remains. [Lat., Factum abiit; monumenta manent.]" ~Ovid
"Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the soul." ~Ovid
"What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless. [Lat., Leniter ex merito quidquid patiare ferendum est, Quae venit indigne poena dolenda venit.]" ~Ovid
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Verse
“I grabbed a pile of dust,
And holding it up,
Foolishly asked for as many birthdays
As the grains of sand.
I forgot to
Ask that they be years
Of youth. ” ~Ovid
Ovid’s famous mock epic—a treasury of myth and magic that is one of the greatest literary works of classical antiquity—is rendered into fluidly poetic English by world-renowned translator Allen Mandelbaum. Roman poet Ovid’s dazzling cycle of tales begins with the creation of the world and ends with the deification of Caesar Augustus. In between is a glorious panoply of the most famous myths and legends of the ancient Greek and Roman world—from Echo’s passion for Narcissus to Pygmalion’s living statue, from Perseus’s defeat of Medusa to the fall of Troy. Retold with Ovid’s irreverent flair, these tales are united by the theme of metamorphosis, as men and women are rendered alien to themselves, turned variously to flowers, trees, animals, and stones. The closest thing to a central character is love itself—a confounding, transforming, irrational force that makes fools of gods and mortals alike. The poem’s playful verses, both sensually earthy and wittily sophisticated, have reverberated through the centuries, inspiring countless artists and writers from Shakespeare to the present. Frequently translated, imitated, and adapted, The Metamorphoses has lost none of its power to provoke and entertain. (Everyman's Library)
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Biography
Ovid was born in Sulmo (modern Sulmona), in an Apennine valley east of Rome, to an important equestrian family, on this day in 43 BC.
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Lobsang Rampa - spiritual plane
"Everything is just electricity and magnetism; everything is only an illusion. The reality is in the spiritual plane." ~Lobsang Rampa
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Lou Holtz Quotes
"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer,
it sings because it has a song." ~Lou Holtz
"Ability is what you're capable of doing.
Motivation determines what you do.
Attitude determines how well you do it."
~Lou Holtz
"Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by." ~Lou Holtz
"Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated." ~Lou Holtz
"It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it." ~Lou Holtz
"Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it." ~Lou Holtz
"One thing is for certain; there will be one thing that will dominate your life. I strongly suggest it be something you can be proud of." ~Lou Holtz
"When all is said and done, more is said than done." ~Lou Holtz
"You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be." ~Lou Holtz
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OSCAR WILDE Quotes
"A different language is a different vision of life." ~Oscar Wilde
"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world." ~Oscar Wilde
“A flower blossoms for its own joy." ~Oscar Wilde
"A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her." ~Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish poet and dramatist.
"A man who can dominate a London dinner table can dominate the world."~Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"A man who does not think for himself does not think at all." ~Oscar Wilde
"A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them." ~Oscar Wilde
"A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position." ~Oscar Wilde
"A man who moralises is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralises is invariably plain." ~CECIL GRAHAM from Oscar Wilde's "Lady Windermere's Fan"
“A mist makes things wonderful.” ~Oscar Wilde
"A poet can survive everything but a misprint." ~Oscar Wilde
"A thing isn't necessarily true just because a man died for it." ~Oscar Wilde
"A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude." ~Oscar Wilde
"Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless." ~"Lady Windermere from "Lady Windermere's Fan" by Oscar Wilde
"Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast." ~from "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime" by Oscar Wilde
"After the first glass of absinthe you see things as you wish they were. After the second you see them as they are not. Finally you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world." ~Oscar Wilde
"All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography." ~Oscar Wilde
"All beautiful things belong to the same age." ~from PEN, PENCIL AND POISON: A Study in Green by Oscar Wilde (Originally in Fortnightly review (January 1889)
“All the spring may be hidden in the single bud,
and the low ground nest of the lark may hold
the joy that is to herald the feet
of many rose-red dawns.”
~Oscar Wilde
"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much." ~Oscar Wilde
"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all." ~Gilbert from "THE CRITIC AS ARTIST: With Some Remarks Upon the Importance of Doing Nothing" by Oscar Wilde
"Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success." ~Oscar Wilde
"Anyone can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success." ~Oscar Wilde, "Sebastian Melmoth"
"Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known." ~Oscar Wilde
"As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied." ~Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, author.
"As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular." ~Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon." ~Oscar Wilde
"Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity." ~Oscar Wilde from "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young
"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship." ~Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish poet and dramatist.
"A poet can survive everything but a misprint." ~Oscar Wilde
"A thing isn't necessarily true just because a man died for it." ~Oscar Wilde
"A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude." ~Oscar Wilde
"Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless." ~"Lady Windermere from "Lady Windermere's Fan" by Oscar Wilde
"Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast." ~from "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime" by Oscar Wilde
"After the first glass of absinthe you see things as you wish they were. After the second you see them as they are not. Finally you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world." ~Oscar Wilde
"All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography." ~Oscar Wilde
"All beautiful things belong to the same age." ~from PEN, PENCIL AND POISON: A Study in Green by Oscar Wilde (Originally in Fortnightly review (January 1889)
“All the spring may be hidden in the single bud,
and the low ground nest of the lark may hold
the joy that is to herald the feet
of many rose-red dawns.”
~Oscar Wilde
"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much." ~Oscar Wilde
"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all." ~Gilbert from "THE CRITIC AS ARTIST: With Some Remarks Upon the Importance of Doing Nothing" by Oscar Wilde
"Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success." ~Oscar Wilde
"Anyone can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success." ~Oscar Wilde, "Sebastian Melmoth"
"Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known." ~Oscar Wilde
"As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied." ~Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, author.
"As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular." ~Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon." ~Oscar Wilde
"Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity." ~Oscar Wilde from "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young
"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship." ~Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish poet and dramatist.
"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative." ~Oscar Wilde
"Costume is a growth, an evolution, and a most important, perhaps the most important, sign of the manners, customs, and mode of life of each century." ~Oscar Wilde
"Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people." ~Oscar Wilde
“Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation” ~Oscar Wilde
"Disobedience in the eyes of anyone who has read history is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made--through disobedience and rebellion." ~Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you it is irrevocable, do not believe them. The past, the present and future are but one moment in the sight of God. Time and space are merely accidental conditions of thought. The imagination can transcend them." ~from DE PROFUNDIS by Oscar Wilde
"Don't let us go to life for our fulfilment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence or form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic and critical temperament." ~Oscar Wilde
"Costume is a growth, an evolution, and a most important, perhaps the most important, sign of the manners, customs, and mode of life of each century." ~Oscar Wilde
"Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people." ~Oscar Wilde
“Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation” ~Oscar Wilde
"Disobedience in the eyes of anyone who has read history is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made--through disobedience and rebellion." ~Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you it is irrevocable, do not believe them. The past, the present and future are but one moment in the sight of God. Time and space are merely accidental conditions of thought. The imagination can transcend them." ~from DE PROFUNDIS by Oscar Wilde
"Don't let us go to life for our fulfilment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence or form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic and critical temperament." ~Oscar Wilde
"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time THAT NOTHING THAT IS WORTH KNOWING CAN BE TAUGHT." ~Oscar Wilde, (1854 - 1900), Irish poet and playwright
"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter." ~Oscar Wilde
"Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future." ~Oscar Wilde
"Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile, like most kings." -Oscar Wilde
"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." ~Oscar Wilde
"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes." ~Oscar Wilde
"Experience is the hardest kind of teacher. It gives you the best test first
and the lesson afterward." ~Oscar Ward
"Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely a name men gave to their mistakes." ~Lord Henry from "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months." ~Oscar Wilde
"Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer." ~Oscar Wilde
"Good intentions have been the ruin of the world. The only people who have achieved anything have been those who have had no intentions at all." -Oscar Wilde
"Hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do." ~Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
“He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.” ~Oscar Wilde's stage notes on Lord Arthur Goring from "An Ideal Husband"
“He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise." ~Oscar Wilde
"He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives." ~Oscar Wilde
"He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best." ~Oscar Wilde
"I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself." ~Lord Goring from "An Ideal Husband" (1895) by Oscar Wilde
“He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.” ~Oscar Wilde's stage notes on Lord Arthur Goring from "An Ideal Husband"
“He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise." ~Oscar Wilde
"He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives." ~Oscar Wilde
"He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best." ~Oscar Wilde
"I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself." ~Lord Goring from "An Ideal Husband" (1895) by Oscar Wilde
"I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood." ~Oscar Wilde
"I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice. As a man sows so let him reap." ~Miss Prism from "The Importance of Being Earnest" (Act II)
"I am not quite sure that I quite know what pessimism really means. All I do know is that life cannot be understood without much charity, cannot be lived without much charity." ~Oscar Wilde
"I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws." ~Oscar Wilde
"I am so clever that sometimes I do not understand a single word of what I am saying." ~Oscar Wilde
"I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.” ~from "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies." ~Oscar Wilde
"I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited." ~Oscar Wilde
“I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.” ~Oscar Wilde from "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
"I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best." ~Oscar Wilde
"I like men who have a future and women who have a past." ~Lord Henry from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
"I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about." ~Oscar Wilde
"I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do — the day after." ~Oscar Wilde
“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.” ~Gwendolen from "The Importance of Being Earnest"
"I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works." ~Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (Oscar Wilde from a conversation with André Gide)
"I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything." ~Duchess from "The Duchess of Padua" by Oscar Wilde
"I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to learn how to be alone and not be defined by another person." ~Oscar Wilde
"I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again." ~Oscar Wilde
“If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.” ~Mrs Cheveley from "An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde
"If you are going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh or they will kill you." ~Oscar Wilde
"If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life." ~Oscar Wilde
"If you don't get everything you want, think of the things that you don't get that you don't want." ~Oscar Wilde
"If you pretend to be good the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism." ~Oscar Wilde, Lord Darlington from Lady Windmere's Fan"
“'If you want a red rose,' said the Tree, 'you must build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with your own heart’s-blood. You must sing to me, and the thorn must pierce your heart, and your life-blood must flow into my veins, and become mine'.” ~from "The Nightingale and the Rose" by Oscar Wilde
"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you." ~Oscar Wilde
"If you wish to understand others you must intensify your own individualism." ~Gilbert, from THE CRITIC AS ARTIST (Part II), by Oscar Wilde
"I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice. As a man sows so let him reap." ~Miss Prism from "The Importance of Being Earnest" (Act II)
"I am not quite sure that I quite know what pessimism really means. All I do know is that life cannot be understood without much charity, cannot be lived without much charity." ~Oscar Wilde
"I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws." ~Oscar Wilde
"I am so clever that sometimes I do not understand a single word of what I am saying." ~Oscar Wilde
"I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.” ~from "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies." ~Oscar Wilde
"I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited." ~Oscar Wilde
“I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.” ~Oscar Wilde from "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
"I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best." ~Oscar Wilde
"I like men who have a future and women who have a past." ~Lord Henry from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
"I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about." ~Oscar Wilde
"I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do — the day after." ~Oscar Wilde
“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.” ~Gwendolen from "The Importance of Being Earnest"
"I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works." ~Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (Oscar Wilde from a conversation with André Gide)
"I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything." ~Duchess from "The Duchess of Padua" by Oscar Wilde
"I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to learn how to be alone and not be defined by another person." ~Oscar Wilde
"I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again." ~Oscar Wilde
“If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.” ~Mrs Cheveley from "An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde
"If you are going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh or they will kill you." ~Oscar Wilde
"If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life." ~Oscar Wilde
"If you don't get everything you want, think of the things that you don't get that you don't want." ~Oscar Wilde
"If you pretend to be good the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism." ~Oscar Wilde, Lord Darlington from Lady Windmere's Fan"
“'If you want a red rose,' said the Tree, 'you must build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with your own heart’s-blood. You must sing to me, and the thorn must pierce your heart, and your life-blood must flow into my veins, and become mine'.” ~from "The Nightingale and the Rose" by Oscar Wilde
"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you." ~Oscar Wilde
"If you wish to understand others you must intensify your own individualism." ~Gilbert, from THE CRITIC AS ARTIST (Part II), by Oscar Wilde
"Illusion is the first of all pleasures." ~Oscar Wilde
"In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it." ~Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you." ~Oscar Wilde
“Irony is wasted on the stupid” ~Oscar Wilde
"It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously." ~Oscar Wilde
"It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming." ~Oscar Wilde, 1998/mpw
"It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names
to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions, my one
quarrel is with words. That is the reason I hate vulgar realism in
literature. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for." ~Lord Henry Wotton from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious." ~Oscar Wilde
"It is always painful to part with people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable." ~Oscar Wilde
"It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is fatal." ~Oscar Wilde
"It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work when there is no definite object of any kind." ~Oscar Wilde
"It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way." ~Oscar Wilde
"It is most dangerous nowadays for a husband to pay any attention to his wife in public. It always makes people think that he beats her when they're alone. The world has grown so suspicious of anything that looks like a happy married life." ~Oscar Wilde
"It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out." ~Oscar Wilde
"It is so easy for people to have sympathy with suffering. It is so difficult for them to have sympathy with thought." ~from THE CRITIC AS ARTIST by Oscar Wilde
"It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection." ~Oscar Wilde
"It is very painful for me to be forced to speak the truth. It is the first time in my life that I have ever been reduced to such a painful position, and I am really quite inexperienced in doing anything of the kind." ~Jack Worthing from "The Importance of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde
"It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone and can be made as offensive as a brickbat." ~Oscar Wilde
"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring." ~Oscar Wilde
"Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one." ~Oscar Wilde
"Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing." ~Oscar Wilde
"Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves and fibres and slowly built-up cells, in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams." ~from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
"Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other." ~Oscar Wilde
"Life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate in farce. One is always wounded when one approaches it. Things last either too long or not long enough." -from THE CRITIC AS ARTIST by Oscar Wilde
"Man is a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex, multiform creature that bears within itself strange legacies of thought and passion, and whose very flesh is tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead." ~Oscar Wilde
"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth." ~Oscar Wilde
"Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.” ~Oscar Wilde
"Mediæval art is charming, but mediæval emotions are out of date. One can use them in fiction, of course; but then the only things that one can use in fiction are the only things that one has ceased to use in fact." ~Lord Henry in The Picture of Dorian Gray
"Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us." ~Oscar Wilde
“Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a mans last romance.” ~Oscar Wilde
"Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct. What they like is to be a man's last romance." ~Oscar Wilde
"Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue." ~Oscar Wilde
"Men become old, but they never become good." ~Oscar Wilde
"Men can love what is beneath them--things unworthy, stained, dishonoured. We women worship when we love; and when we lose our worship we lose everything." ~Oscar Wilde (LadyChiltern from "An Ideal Husband")
"Men know life too early; women know life too late--that is the difference between men and women." ~Oscar Wilde
"Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue." ~Oscar Wilde
"Men become old, but they never become good." ~Oscar Wilde
"Men can love what is beneath them--things unworthy, stained, dishonoured. We women worship when we love; and when we lose our worship we lose everything." ~Oscar Wilde (LadyChiltern from "An Ideal Husband")
"Men know life too early; women know life too late--that is the difference between men and women." ~Oscar Wilde
“Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways." ~Oscar Wilde
"Misfortunes one can endure, they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's faults--ah! there is the sting of life." ~Oscar Wilde
"Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast." ~Lord Henry to Lady Ruxton in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
"Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace." ~Oscar Wilde
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation." ~Oscar Wilde
"Most people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined oneself over poetry is an honour." ~Oscar Wilde
"Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense and discover too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes'." ~from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
"Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays." ~Oscar Wilde
"Never love anybody who treats you like you're ordinary." ~Oscar Wilde
"No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." ~Oscar Wilde from The Preface to "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
"No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything." ~Oscar Wilde from Preface to THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist." ~Oscar Wilde
“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.” ~Oscar Wilde on Senses
"Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men. I wonder we women stand it as well as we do." ~Mrs. Allonby from "A Woman of No Importance" by Oscar Wilde
"Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern. One is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly." ~Mrs. Markby from "An Ideal Husband" by Oscar Wilde
"Nowadays people seem to look on life as a speculation. It is not a speculation. It is a sacrament. Its ideal is love. Its purification is sacrifice." ~Lady Windermere from "Lady Windermere's Fan" (Oscar Wilde)
"One can survive everything nowadays except death." ~Oscar Wilde
"One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason." ~Oscar Wilde
"One should absorb the color of life." ~Oscar Wilde
"One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards." ~Oscar Wilde
"One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged." ~Oscar Wilde
"Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast." ~Oscar Wilde
"Optimism begins in a broad grin, and Pessimism ends with blue spectacles. Besides, they are both of them merely poses." ~Mrs Cheveley from "An Ideal Husband" by Oscar Wilde
"Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you." ~Oscar Wilde
"Out of ourselves we can never pass, nor can there be in creation what in the creator was not." ~Oscar Wilde
CTTO
"People are like books: some deceive you with their cover, and others surprise you with their contents." ~Oscar Wilde
"People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies." ~Oscar Wilde
"Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness."
~Oscar Wilde
"Politics are my only pleasure. You see nowadays it is not fashionable to flirt till one is forty or to be romantic till one is forty-five, so we poor women who are under thirty, or say we are, have nothing open to us but politics or philanthropy. And philanthropy seems to me to have become simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow-creatures. I prefer politics. I think they are more... becoming." ~Oscar Wilde, MRS CHEVELEY from "An Ideal Husband"
"Public and private life are different things. They have different laws and move on different lines." ~Sir Robert Chiltern, from "An Ideal Husband" by Oscar Wilde
"Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic." ~Oscar Wilde, "The Model Millionaire"
"Scepticism is the beginning of Faith." ~Oscar Wilde
"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live: and unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them." ~Oscar Wilde
"Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow." ~Oscar Wilde
"She lives the poetry she cannot write." ~Oscar Wilde
"Society often forgives the criminal, it never forgives the dreamer." ~Oscar Wilde, from "The Critic as Artist"
“Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness, and fails to realise what it has done. When the man’s punishment is over, it leaves him to himself; that is to say, it abandons him at the very moment when its highest duty towards him begins. It is really ashamed of its own actions, and shuns those whom it has punished, as people shun a creditor whose debt they cannot pay, or one on whom they have inflicted an irreparable, an irremediable wrong.” ~from "De Profundis" (Oscar Wilde)
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." ~Oscar Wilde
"People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies." ~Oscar Wilde
"Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness."
~Oscar Wilde
"Politics are my only pleasure. You see nowadays it is not fashionable to flirt till one is forty or to be romantic till one is forty-five, so we poor women who are under thirty, or say we are, have nothing open to us but politics or philanthropy. And philanthropy seems to me to have become simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow-creatures. I prefer politics. I think they are more... becoming." ~Oscar Wilde, MRS CHEVELEY from "An Ideal Husband"
"Public and private life are different things. They have different laws and move on different lines." ~Sir Robert Chiltern, from "An Ideal Husband" by Oscar Wilde
"Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic." ~Oscar Wilde, "The Model Millionaire"
"Scepticism is the beginning of Faith." ~Oscar Wilde
"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live: and unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them." ~Oscar Wilde
"Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow." ~Oscar Wilde
"She lives the poetry she cannot write." ~Oscar Wilde
"Society often forgives the criminal, it never forgives the dreamer." ~Oscar Wilde, from "The Critic as Artist"
“Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness, and fails to realise what it has done. When the man’s punishment is over, it leaves him to himself; that is to say, it abandons him at the very moment when its highest duty towards him begins. It is really ashamed of its own actions, and shuns those whom it has punished, as people shun a creditor whose debt they cannot pay, or one on whom they have inflicted an irreparable, an irremediable wrong.” ~from "De Profundis" (Oscar Wilde)
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." ~Oscar Wilde
"Sooner or later we have all to pay for what we do." ~Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction." ~from THE DECAY OF LYING by Oscar Wilde
"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for." ~Oscar Wilde
"The basis of every scandal is an absolute immoral certainty." ~Oscar Wilde
"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic." ~Oscar Wild
"The difference between journalism and literature is that journalism is un-readable and literature is not read." ~Oscar Wilde
"The English can't stand a man who is always saying he is in the right, but they are very fond of a man who admits he has been in the wrong. It is one of the best things in them." ~Oscar Wilde
“The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star; there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?” ~Oscar Wilde
“The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.” ~from DE PROFUNDIS by Oscar Wilde
"The majority of people spoil their lives by an unhealthy and exaggerated altruism." ~from The Soul of Man Under Socialism by Oscar Wilde
“The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone.” ~from DE PROFUNDIS by Oscar Wilde
"le mystère de l'amour est plus grand que le mystère de la mort."
("The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.") ~from "Salomé" (1893) by Oscar Wilde
"The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything." ~Oscar Wilde
"The only artists I have ever known, who are personally delightful, are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not live." ~Lord Henry Wotton from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
"The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated." ~Oscar Wilde
"The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself." ~Oscar Wilde
"The only thing worse then being talked about is not being talked about." ~Oscar Wilde
"The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life." ~Lord Henry from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it." ~Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"The people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failure." ~Oscar Wilde from The Picture of Dorian Gray
"The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing." ~Oscar Wilde
"The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid of ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror." ~Oscar Wilde
"The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived." ~Oscar Wilde
"The soul is born old, but grows young. That is the comedy of life. The body is born young, and grows old. That is life's tragedy." ~Oscar Wilde
"The state is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful." ~Oscar Wilde
"The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young." ~Oscar Wilde
"The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible." ~Oscar Wilde
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple." ~Oscar Wilde
"The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves." ~Oscar Wilde
"The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it." ~Oscar Wilde
"The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life." ~Oscar Wilde
“The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.” ~Oscar Wilde
"There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor." ~Oscar Wilde
"There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life fully, entirely, completely, or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands." ~Lord Darlington, from Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde
"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing." ~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"There is luxury in self reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us." ~Oscar Wilde
"There is nothing so absolutely pathetic as a really fine paradox. The pun is the clown among jokes, the well-turned paradox is the polished comedian, and the highest comedy verges upon tragedy, just as the keenest edge of tragedy is often tempered by a subtle humour." ~Oscar Wilde writing as Sebastian Melmoth
"There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else. That is the misery of being poor." ~from THE SOUL OF MAN
"Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob. It is through the voice of one crying in the wilderness that the way of the gods must be prepared." ~Oscar Wilde
"To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up." ~Oscar Wilde
"To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes." ~Oscar Wilde
“To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.” ~Oscar Wilde, from "De Profundis"
"To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect." ~Oscar Wilde
“To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.” ~Oscar Wilde
"To know everything about oneself one must know all about others." ~Oscar Wilde
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all." ~Oscar Wilde
"To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance" ~Oscar Wilde
"To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist. The problem is entirely the same in both cases: to know how much oil one must put with one’s vinegar." ~Oscar Wilde
"To recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less." ~Oscar Wilde
“The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.” ~from DE PROFUNDIS by Oscar Wilde
"The majority of people spoil their lives by an unhealthy and exaggerated altruism." ~from The Soul of Man Under Socialism by Oscar Wilde
“The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone.” ~from DE PROFUNDIS by Oscar Wilde
"le mystère de l'amour est plus grand que le mystère de la mort."
("The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.") ~from "Salomé" (1893) by Oscar Wilde
"The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything." ~Oscar Wilde
"The only artists I have ever known, who are personally delightful, are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not live." ~Lord Henry Wotton from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
"The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated." ~Oscar Wilde
"The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself." ~Oscar Wilde
"The only thing worse then being talked about is not being talked about." ~Oscar Wilde
"The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life." ~Lord Henry from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it." ~Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"The people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failure." ~Oscar Wilde from The Picture of Dorian Gray
"The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing." ~Oscar Wilde
"The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid of ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror." ~Oscar Wilde
"The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived." ~Oscar Wilde
"The soul is born old, but grows young. That is the comedy of life. The body is born young, and grows old. That is life's tragedy." ~Oscar Wilde
"The state is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful." ~Oscar Wilde
"The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young." ~Oscar Wilde
"The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible." ~Oscar Wilde
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple." ~Oscar Wilde
"The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves." ~Oscar Wilde
"The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it." ~Oscar Wilde
"The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life." ~Oscar Wilde
“The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.” ~Oscar Wilde
"There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor." ~Oscar Wilde
"There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life fully, entirely, completely, or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands." ~Lord Darlington, from Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde
"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing." ~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"There is luxury in self reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us." ~Oscar Wilde
"There is nothing so absolutely pathetic as a really fine paradox. The pun is the clown among jokes, the well-turned paradox is the polished comedian, and the highest comedy verges upon tragedy, just as the keenest edge of tragedy is often tempered by a subtle humour." ~Oscar Wilde writing as Sebastian Melmoth
"There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else. That is the misery of being poor." ~from THE SOUL OF MAN
"Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob. It is through the voice of one crying in the wilderness that the way of the gods must be prepared." ~Oscar Wilde
"To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up." ~Oscar Wilde
"To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes." ~Oscar Wilde
“To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.” ~Oscar Wilde, from "De Profundis"
"To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect." ~Oscar Wilde
“To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.” ~Oscar Wilde
"To know everything about oneself one must know all about others." ~Oscar Wilde
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all." ~Oscar Wilde
"To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance" ~Oscar Wilde
"To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist. The problem is entirely the same in both cases: to know how much oil one must put with one’s vinegar." ~Oscar Wilde
"To recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less." ~Oscar Wilde
“Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colors of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.” ~Oscar Wilde
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." ~Oscar Wilde
"We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities." ~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow." ~Oscar Wilde
"What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise." ~Oscar Wilde
"We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful." ~Lord Henry from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
"When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs." ~from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
"When I am in trouble eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, when I am in really great trouble, as anyone who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink. At the present moment I am eating rnufifins because I am unhappy. Besides, I am particularly fond of muffins." ~Algernon "Algy" Moncrieff from "The Importance of Being Earnest"
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." ~Oscar Wilde
"We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities." ~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow." ~Oscar Wilde
"What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise." ~Oscar Wilde
"We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful." ~Lord Henry from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
"When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs." ~from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
"When I am in trouble eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, when I am in really great trouble, as anyone who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink. At the present moment I am eating rnufifins because I am unhappy. Besides, I am particularly fond of muffins." ~Algernon "Algy" Moncrieff from "The Importance of Being Earnest"
“When it rains look for rainbows. When it’s dark look for the stars.” ~Oscar Wilde
"When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her." ~Oscar Wilde to a reporter
"Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives." ~Oscar Wilde
"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong." ~Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"Who, being loved, is poor?" ~Oscar Wilde
"With freedom, books, flowers and the moon, who could not be happy?" ~Oscar Wilde
"With the abolition of private property, then, we shall have true, beautiful, healthy Individualism. Nobody will waste his life in accumulating things, and the symbols for things. One will live. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all." ~from THE SOUL OF MAN UNDER SOCIALISM by Oscar Wilde
"Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat." ~Oscar Wilde
"Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world." ~Oscar Wilde
"Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give! I would give my soul for that!" ~Dorian Gray from THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY by Oscar Wilde
"Yet each man kills the thing he loves
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!"
~from "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" (1898) by Oscar Wilde
"You can never be overdressed or overeducated.” ~Oscar Wilde
“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes or their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear." ~Oscar Wilde
"You forget that a thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it." ~Oscar Wilde
"Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot." ~Oscar Wilde
"Your mother is a thoroughly good woman. But good women have such limited views of life, their horizon is so small, their interests are so petty, aren't they?" ~Oscar Wilde (LORD ILLINGWORTH to GERALD in "A Woman of No Importance")
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FROM HIS BOOKS
"The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious. The result is the Criticism of the Journalist." ~from "A Few Maxims For The Instruction Of The Over-Educated" (1894) by Oscar Wilde
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Today is the 160th anniversary of Oscar Wilde's birth. Celebrate with some of his best quips.
1. I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
2. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
3. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
4. It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
5. The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.
6. Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
7. What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
8. A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
9. When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
10. There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
11. Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
12. Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
13. True friends stab you in the front.
14. All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
15. Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
16. There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
17. Genius is born—not paid.
18. Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
19. How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being?
20. A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.
21. My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people’s.
22. The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
23. I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
24. There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.
25. Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
And one bonus quote about Oscar Wilde!
"If, with the literate, I am
Impelled to try an epigram,
I never seek to take the credit;
We all assume that Oscar said it."
~Dorothy Parker said it best in a 1927 issue of Life:
Source: Mental Floss
17 October 2014
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POETRY
"REQUIESCAT" by Oscar Wilde
READ lightly, she is near
Under the snow,
Speak gently, she can hear
The daisies grow.
All her bright golden hair
Tarnished with rust,
She that was young and fair
Fallen to dust.
Lily-like, white as snow,
She hardly knew
She was a woman, so
Sweetly she grew.
Coffin-board, heavy stone,
Lie on her breast,
I vex my heart alone,
She is at rest.
Peace, peace, she cannot hear
Lyre or sonnet,
All my life's buried here,
Heap earth upon it.
♥*✿*•s♥
"Yet each man kills the thing he loves
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!"
~From "De Profundis" (1897) by Oscar Wilde
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Thought for Today - Impact
"Make every thought, word and deed such that the impact gives someone courage and zeal and enthusiasm." ~Thought for Today-UK
Quotes on OCEAN, RIVER, SEA and WATER
“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
"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
“Although I deeply love oceans, deserts, and other wild landscapes, it is only mountains that beckon me to walk deeper and deeper into their beauty.” ~Victoria Erickson
"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
༺♥༻༺♥༻༺♥༻
“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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"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 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 river doesn't argue with the rocks; it flows around them. Adopt its wisdom." ~Anon
'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 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
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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
"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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