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“Now imagine that you are going beneath the surface of the ocean. Below the surface all is calm, silent, and serene. As you visualize yourself going deeper and deeper into the depths of the ocean, feel that a profound peace is entering you.”

Feels Imagine Ocean Silent Profound Depth Calm Deeper Surface Imagine That Entering Serene Visualization Beneath The Surface Below The Surface

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Our air, water, soil, forests, oceans, rivers, lakes, scenic beauty, wildlife habitat, minerals, that is the wealth of the country.”

Country Water Wealth Air Ocean Rivers Environmental Forests Soil Lakes Wildlife Minerals Habitat Scenic

Author:Gaylord Nelson

“Reincarnation is the dissolution of the self. It's like going swimming in the ocean, no one ever comes out, because one has become the ocean.”

Self Ocean Swimming Reincarnation Dissolution

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I could never swim in the ocean after seeing Jaws.”

Seeing Ocean Swim

Author:Michael Fassbender

“Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, oh sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me.”

Break Sea Cold Ocean Stones Tongue Arise Gray

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“The chief character in this narrative is the Caribbean Sea, one of the world's most alluring bodies of water, a rare gem among the oceans, defined by the islands that form a chain of lovely jewels to the north and east”

World Character Body Form Water Sea Ocean East Lovely Chains Defined Chiefs Narrative Islands Jewels Gems Caribbean Alluring Bodies Of Water

Book:Caribbean: A Novel

Source: Caribbean: A Novel

“Why does the sea moan evermore? Shut out from heaven it makes its moan, It frets against the boundary shore; All earth's full rivers cannot fill The sea, that drinking thirsteth still.”

Doe Stills Earth Heaven Sea Ocean Rivers Drinking Boundaries Shore Evermore

Book:Poems and prose

Source: Poems and prose

“The sea is flowing ever, The land retains it never.”

Book:The Poems of Goethe

Source: The Poems of Goethe

“Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.”

Waste Ocean Melancholy Gray Decoration Quietness Pensive

Author:William C. Bryant

“That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,-- Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.”

Men Waste Ocean Green Rounds Melancholy Gray Solemn Tombs Meadows Decoration Quietness Pensive

Author:William C. Bryant

“For now I stand as one upon a rock environed with a wilderness of sea, who marks the waxing tide grow wave by wave, expecting ever when some envious surge will in his brinish bowels swallow him.”

Grows Sea Rocks Ocean Mark Wave Wilderness Expecting Tides Envious Bowels Waxing

Book:Titus Andronicus and Timon of Athens: Two Classical Plays

Source: Titus Andronicus and Timon of Athens: Two Classical Plays

“Coal-black is better than another hue In that it scorns to bear another hue; For all the water in the ocean Can never turn the swan's black legs to white, Although she lave them hourly in the flood.”

Turns Black Water White Bears Ocean Legs Flood Coal Scorn Swans Hue

Book:The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Venus and Adonis. The rape of Lucrece. Sonnets. The passionate pilgrim. A lover's complaint. Titus Andronicus. Romeus and Juliet. Appendix, glossarial index. Vol. 10

Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Venus and Adonis. The rape of Lucrece. Sonnets. The passionate pilgrim. A lover's complaint. Titus Andronicus. Romeus and Juliet. Appendix, glossarial index. Vol. 10

“Music is the vapor of art. It is to poetry what reverie is to thought, what fluid is to solid, what the ocean of clouds is to the ocean of waves.”

Art Music Ocean Music Is Clouds Wave Fluid Reverie Vapor

Author:Victor Hugo

“Whilst breezy waves toss up their silvery spray.”

Ocean Wave Toss Spray Breezy

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood (Illustrated)

“A mob is usually a creature of very mysterious existence, particularly in a large city. Where it comes from, or whither it goes, few men can tell. Assembling and dispersing with equal suddenness, it is as difficult to follow to its various sources as the sea itself; nor does the parallel stop here, for the ocean is not more fickle and uncertain, more terrible when roused, more unreasonable or more cruel.”

Source: Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].

“The pleased sea on a white-breasted shore-- A shore that wears on her alluring brows Rare shells, far brought, the love-gifts of the sea, That blushed a tell-tale.”

White Sea Ocean Tales Shore Shells Brows Alluring

Author:Alexander Smith

“Burns, has spent years exploring the many avenues for adventure and fun in San Diego. The fact that you can experience the desert, snow, mountains and ocean in the course of a day has always been amazing to me. If you are really motivated, you can snow ski, surf, take a mountain hike, and race dune buggies all in one weekend, .. I grew up here and want to showcase San Diego to the world. I love San Diego.”

Ifs World Want Years Facts Courses Fun Race Adventure Grew Mountain Ocean Grew Up Snow Desert Motivated Weekend Exploring Avenues Surf Skis Showcase San Diego

Author:Robert Burns

“Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.”

Sea Land Ocean Praise

Book:The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose

Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose

“Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.”

Knows Mind Hands Form Ocean Ambition Wings Storm Fierce Lightning

Book:The Works of Alexander Pope: With a Memoir of the Author, Notes, and Critical Notes on Each Poem

Source: The Works of Alexander Pope: With a Memoir of the Author, Notes, and Critical Notes on Each Poem

“Rich and various gems inlay The unadorned bosom of the deep.”

Rich Ocean Various Bosoms Gems

Book:The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors

Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors

“The ocean and I have many pebbles To find and wash off and roll into shape.”

Sea Shapes Ocean Pebbles

Book:Crossing unmarked snow: further views on the writer's vocation

Source: Crossing unmarked snow: further views on the writer's vocation

“And Thou, vast Ocean! on whole awful face Time's iron feet can print no ruin trace.”

Whole Faces Feet Ocean Ruins Awful Iron Print Vast Ocean

Author:Robert Montgomery

“The land is dearer for the sea, The ocean for the shore.”

Sea Land Ocean Shore

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“You'd think New York people was all wise; but no, they can't get a chance to learn. Every thing's too compressed. Even the hayseeds are bailed hayseeds. But what else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?”

People Thinking World Sides Chance Wise New York Ocean Towns Seeds Jersey New Jersey Hay

Author:O. Henry

“Now deep in ocean sunk the lamp of light, And drew behind the cloudy vale of night.”

Light Night Behinds Ocean Lamps Cloudy

Author:Homer

“It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.”

Pleasure Sea Land Wind Ocean Folks Ease

Author:Lucretius

“Ye waves That o'er th' interminable ocean wreathe Your crisped smiles.”

Book:The Tragedies of Æschylus translated into English verse, with notes . By R. Potter

Source: The Tragedies of Æschylus translated into English verse, with notes . By R. Potter

“Out in the ocean, a rope is put around the man's neck. The other end of the rope is attached to an old jukebox and it is thrown overboard. The man invariably follows.”

Men Ends He Man Ocean Necks Thrown Rope Overboard Jukebox

Book:The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight: A Novel

Source: The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight: A Novel

“O soul, be changed into little waterdrops, / And fall into the ocean, ne'er be found!”

Littles Soul Fall Found Changed Ocean

Author:Christopher Marlowe

“I'm looking at a place on the coast, ... I was born next to the ocean and I'd like to live next to the ocean.”

Next Born Ocean Coast

Author:Tiger Woods

“Quoth the Ocean, "Dawn! O fairest, clearest, Touch me with thy golden fingers bland; For I have no smile till thou appearest For the lovely land.”

Land Ocean Fingers Lovely Golden Dawn Touch Me Bland

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“The ocean does not require that the waves are still to be more ocean-like.”

Doe Stills Ocean Perfection Wave

Author:Mooji

“The jolt that Tony Blair received 35,000ft above the Pacific Ocean was not normal turbulence.”

Normal Ocean Pacific Blair Turbulence Pacific Ocean

Author:Tony Blair

“But the 3% who have taken the time and exercised the discipline to decide on a destination and to chart a course sail straight and far across the deep oceans of life, reaching one port after another and accomplishing more in just a few years than the rest accomplish in a lifetime.”

Years Courses Taken Discipline Ocean Lifetime Accomplish Reaching Destination Sail Port Deep Ocean

Author:Earl Nightingale

“If you approach the ocean with a cup, you can only take away a cupful; if you approach it with a bucket you can take away a bucketful.”

Ifs Ocean Approach Cups Abundance Buckets

Author:Ramana Maharshi

“Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear.”

Dark Bears Ocean Rays Sweetness Caves Serene Gems

Author:Thomas Gray

“The sea! the sea! the open sea! The blue, the fresh, the ever free! Without a mark, without a bound, It runneth the earth's wide regions round; It plays with the clouds; it mocks the skies; Or like a cradled creature lies.”

Play Earth Lying Sea Sky Creatures Ocean Mark Blue Bounds Rounds Clouds Wide Regions Blue Ocean

Author:Bryan Procter

“God is in everyone. God is in you and you are God. Strengthen this fundamental truth. When you propagate this truth, that is the real service. It is the service that will take you to closer proximity, a boat. In this ocean of life, take the help of this boat and gain the proximity.”

Real Helping Ocean Gains Fundamentals Boat Proximity

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Gentle reader, I was born upon the water - not upon the salt and angry ocean, but upon the fresh and rapid-flowing river.”

Water Born Reader Ocean Rivers Angry Gentle Salt Rapids Flowing River

Book:Jacob Faithful

Source: Jacob Faithful

“To travel like a bird, lightly to view | Deserts where stone gods founder in the sand, | Ocean embraced in a white sleep with land; | To escape time, always to start anew... | Hooded by a dark sense of destination... | Travelers, we're fabric of the road we go; We settle, but like feathers on time's flow.”

Light Dark Sleep White Views Land Ocean Bird Flow Stones Desert Settling Sand Destination Founders Fabric Traveler Feathers Starting Anew

Book:The Complete Poems of C. Day Lewis

Source: The Complete Poems of C. Day Lewis

“The naturalists of yore esteemed the ocean to be a treasury of wonders, and sought therein for monstrosities and organisms contrary to the law of nature, such as they interpreted it.”

Law Wonder Ocean Contrary Organisms Laws Of Nature Treasury Naturalist Monstrosity

Author:Edward Forbes

“This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet so intense in its contemplativeness that it verges sometimes on ecstasy.”

Sometimes Lines Music Virtue Ocean Calm Intense Contemplation Ecstasy Serenity Severe Verge Monotonous Asceticism Sensuous Horizontal

Author:Charles Gounod

“But someone once described the contrast between a good life and a godly life as the difference between the top of the ocean and the bottom. On top, sometimes it's like glass -- serene and calm -- and other times it's raging and stormy. But hundreds of fathoms below, it is beautiful and consistent, always calm, always peaceful.”

Sometimes Beautiful Differences Ocean Bottom Calm Glasses Rage Peaceful Consistent Good Life Contrast Godly Serene Fathom Stormy Godly Life

Book:From Ashes to Glory

Source: From Ashes to Glory

“I would recommend if you come to Ocean Grove and you're not from around here, don't wear rubber pants, a pink shirt and a blue jacket. Leave that for Asbury Park.”

Ifs Ocean Blue Shirts Parks Pants Jackets Rubber Grove

Author:Peter Noone

“In the case of 'Ocean at the End of the Lane,' it's a book about helplessness. It's a book about family, it's a book about being 7 in a world of people who are bigger than you, and more dangerous, and stepping into territory that you don't entirely understand.”

People World Book Ends Cases Dangerous Ocean Bigger Territory Lanes Helplessness About Family

Author:Neil Gaiman

“We esteem in the world those who do not merit our esteem, and neglect persons of true worth; but the world is like the ocean--the pearl is in its depths, the seaweed swims.”

World Persons Ocean Depth Esteem Merit Neglect Swim Pearls Seaweed True Worth

Author:George Pope Morris

“Oceans is about glamour. I can't go looking like a slob can I?”

I Can Ocean Glamour

Author:George Clooney

“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.”

World Doe Problem Imagine Ocean Guilt Active Beach Permit Vacation Inertia Eliminating Beach And Ocean Beach Ocean Best Vacation

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“I grew up in Ireland, and the ocean was never more than an arm's length away. As lovely as the mountains are and as friendly as the people of Utah are, I feel a bit landlocked here.”

People Feels Bits Arms Grew Mountain Ocean Grew Up Lovely Friendly Length Ireland Utah

Author:Roma Downey

“The biggest danger in sailing is not the open ocean. It's hitting things. So if I have a thousand miles between me and land, a storm doesn't really upset me. If the boat's set up right, you get beat up a little bit, but the boat's going to handle it fine.”

Ifs Littles Bits Land Danger Fine Thousand Ocean Little Bit Beats Storm Miles Handle Boat Upset Hitting Sailing Thousand Miles

Author:John Moffitt