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“I love anything that involves the ocean. Swimming, snorkelling or surfing are all fun, which distracts from your mind that you are actually doing a workout. Being outdoors in the sun and the salt water is great for freeing your mind and feeling alive.”

Mind Feelings Fun Water Sun Alive Ocean Swimming Salt Workout Surfing Salt Water I Love Swimming

Author:Samantha Stosur

“Sunset is so marvellous that even the sun itself watches it every day in the reflections of the infinite oceans!”

Watches Sun Ocean Reflection Infinite Sunset Marvellous

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“But I have sinuous shells of pearly hue Within, and they that lustre have imbibed In the sun's palace-porch, where when unyoked chariot-wheel stands midway in the wave: Shake one, and it awakens; then apply Its polisht lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there.”

Remember Sun Ocean Ears Lips Wave Wheels Shakes Shells Palaces August Hue Porch Abode Chariots Midway

Book:Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Walter Savage Landor (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Walter Savage Landor (Illustrated)

“Often, very often, I am alone. My studio in Amsterdam, (Beckmann lived in the center of Amsterdam during World War 2.) an enormous old tobacco storeroom is again filled in my imagination with figures from the old days and from the new, like an ocean moved by storm and sun and always present in my thoughts. Then shapes become beings and seem comprehensible to me in the great void and uncertainty of the space which I call god.”

“There comes, even to kings, the time of great weariness. Then the gold of the throne is brass, the silk of the palace becomes drab. The gems in the diadem and upon the fingers of the women sparkle drearily like the ice of white seas; the speech of men is as the empty rattle of a jester's bell and the feel comes of things unreal; even the sun is copper in the sky and the breath of the green ocean is no longer fresh.”

Men Feels White Sun Sea Sky Kings Speech Ocean Empty Gold Breaths Green Fingers Ice Bells Thrones Palaces Unreal Silk Gems Weariness Sparkle Brass Copper Jester

Book:Kull: Exile of Atlantis

Source: Kull: Exile of Atlantis

“The Spanish voyager, as his caravel ploughed the adjacent seas, might give full scope to his imagination, and dream that beyond the long, low margin of forest which bounded his horizon lay hid a rich harvest for some future conqueror; perhaps a second Mexico with its royal palace and sacred pyramids, or another Cuzco with its temple of the Sun, encircled with a frieze of gold. Haunted by such visions, the ocean chivalry of Spain could not long stand idle.”

Source: France and England in North America: Pioneers of France in the New World. The Jesuits of North America in the seventeenth century. La Salle and the discovery of the Great West. The old régime in Canada

“The savage, rocky shores of Christmas Island, 200 miles south of Java, in the Indian Ocean. It's November, the moon is in its third quarter, and the sun is just setting. In a few hours from now, on this very shore, a thousand million lives will be launched.”

Hours Millions Sun Television Thousand Moon Ocean Thirds South Miles Setting Settings Indian Islands Shore Quarters Savages November Java

Author:David Attenborough

“Surfing is very special and unique. It's really hard to explain unless you've tried it. It's being out in the ocean in the sun, the water on your skin, and the adrenalin rush when you catch a wave. You have to be creative so it's like an art form in a way.”

Way Art Hard Form Water Sun Creative Special Ocean Unique Skins Wave Be Creative Surfing

Author:Bethany Hamilton

“Watch the unending activity of the flowing stream or the growing tree. See the breakers of the ocean, the unceasing movements of the earth, the planets, the sun and the stars. All creation is life, movement, work.”

Earth Stars Watches Sun Growing Tree Movement Creation Planets Activity Ocean Streams Unending Growing Tree

Author:Maria Montessori

“When we have discovered a continent, or crossed a chain of mountains, it is only to find another ocean or another plain upon the further side. . . . O toiling hands of mortals! O wearied feet, travelling ye know not whither! Soon, soon, it seems to you, you must come forth on some conspicuous hilltop, and but a little way further, against the setting sun, descry the spires of El Dorado. Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.”

Knows Way Littles Hands Seems Sides Sun Feet Mountain Travel Ocean Setting Settings Chains Mortals Hopefully Labour Continents Blessedness True Success Toiling Spires

Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

“Somewhat of goodness, something true From sun and spirit shining through All faiths, all worlds, as through the dark Of ocean shines the lighthouse spark, Attests the presence everywhere Of love and providential care.”

World Care Spirit Dark Sun Goodness Ocean Shining Sparks Providence Lighthouse Shining Through

Book:The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier

Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier

“Now from the smooth deep ocean-stream the sun Began to climb the heavens, and with new rays Smote the surrounding fields.”

Heaven Morning Sun Fields Ocean Streams Climbs Rays Smooth Deep Ocean

Book:The Iliad of Homer

Source: The Iliad of Homer

“Like the ocean that remains calm in its depths even when waves rage over its surface, and like the sun that continues shining on high even during storms, we can at each moment create value and develop our state of life, enjoying our existence to the fullest in times of both suffering and joy.”

Life States Moments Joy Suffering Values Enjoy Existence Sun Ocean Remains Shining Depth Calm Wave Storm Surface Rage Over It Enjoy Life

Author:Daisaku Ikeda

“Each night the sun sank right in our eyes along the sea, making an undulating glittering pathway, a golden track charted on the surface of the ocean which our ship followed unswervingly until the sun dipped below the edge of the horizon, and the pathway ran ahead of us faster than we could steam and slipped over the edge of the skyline - as if the sun had been a golden ball and had wound up its thread of gold too quickly for us to follow.”

Ifs Eye Night Sun Sea Ocean Gold Balls Edges Track Surface Wounds Ships Golden Faster Ran Horizon Thread Pathways Steam Over The Edge Skylines

Book:The Loss of the S.S. Titanic

Source: The Loss of the S.S. Titanic

“I have a thousand brilliant lies For the question: How are you? I have a thousand brilliant lies For the question: What is God? If you think that the Truth can be known From words, If you think that the Sun and the Ocean Can pass through that tiny opening Called the mouth, O someone should start laughing! Someone should start wildly Laughing Now!”

Ifs Thinking Should God Truth Lying Known Laughing Sun Thousand Ocean Mouths Brilliant Tiny Opening

Author:Hafez

“Don't you see, if when we die there's nothing, all your sun and fields and what not are all, ah, horror? It's just an ocean of horror.”

Ifs Dies Sun Fields Horror Ocean

Author:John Updike

“In the beginning we were creating our music, ourselves, every night . . . starting with a few outlines, maybe a few words for a song. Sometimes we worked out in Venice, looking at the surf. We were together a lot and it was good times for all of us. Acid, sun, friends, the ocean, and poetry and music.”

Sometimes Together Night Song Sun Drug Ocean Creating Starting Good Times Every Night Acid Outlines Venice Surf Few Words Lsd Poetry And Music

Author:Jim Morrison

“We may be tossed upon an ocean where we can see no land - nor, perhaps, the sun or stars. But there is a chart and a compass for us to study, to consult, and to obey. That chart is the Constitution.”

May Stars Sun Study Land Ocean Constitution Compass Consulting

Book:Writings and speeches hitherto uncollected, v. 1. Addresses on various occasions

Source: Writings and speeches hitherto uncollected, v. 1. Addresses on various occasions

“The earth turns on its orbit for You. The oceans ebb and flow for You. The birds sing for You. The sun rises and it sets for You. The stars come out for You. Every beautiful thing you see, every wondrous thing you experience, is all there, for You. Take a look around. None of it can exist, without You.”

Looks Earth Beautiful Turns Stars Sun Ocean Bird Flow Beautiful Things Without You Wondrous Very Beautiful Orbit Sun Rise Ebb And Flow

Book:The Secret

Source: The Secret

“I kind of like carbon taxes because we already know how to apply them. We already have apparatus in place. When we talk about these other solutions - like a billion tons of iron filings in the ocean or putting sunshades between us and the sun - they're huge. We have no idea if they will work. We have no idea what their nasty consequences might be. And it's unlikely we can do them anyway.”

Ifs Knows Kind Ideas Might Can Do Know How Sun Huge Taxes Ocean Solutions Consequence Billions No Idea Iron Nasty Carbon Unlikely Filing Carbon Tax

Author:Paul R. Ehrlich

“For ocean, whale is a small fish; for wise man, small fish is an ocean! Sun, hides in the candle!”

Men Sun Wise Ocean Fishes Candle Whales Small Fish

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I need the sun, sand and ocean to rejuvenate my spirit, the food to enliven my body and all of the familiar places, friends and family to revitalize my soul. I go for replenishment. For a kind of love that I truly know. For a place of belonging, always.”

Knows Needs Kind Soul Body Spirit Sun Ocean Familiar My Soul Sand Belonging Family And Friends Kinds Of Love Familiar Places

Author:Grace Gealey

“All rivers, even the most dazzling, those that catch the sun in their course, all rivers go down to the ocean and drown. And life awaits man as the sea awaits the river.”

Men Courses Sun Sea Ocean Rivers Dazzling

Author:Simone Schwarz-Bart

“My studio is right on the ocean, and the sun rises right in my eyes every morning, and the energy of the sea is right there.”

Eye Energy Morning Sun Sea Ocean Studios Every Morning Sun Rise

Author:Suzanne Ciani

“I am passionate about what is going on with the oceans, mainly because we are for some idiotic reason, really screwing it up. I mean, we're really killing the ocean. It's like putting out the sun. Without it, there is no us.”

Mean Reason Sun Ocean Killing Passionate Idiotic

Author:Morgan Freeman

“To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.”

Sun Sea Solitude Ocean Empty Embrace Setting Settings Beach Beach And Ocean Beach Ocean Cool Beach

Author:Jeanne Moreau

“Just imagine becoming the way you used to be as a very young child, before you understood the meaning of any word, before opinions took over your mind. The real you is loving, joyful, and free. The real you is just like a flower, just like the wind, just like the ocean, just like the sun.”

“You've seen the sun flatten and take strange shapes just before it sinks in the ocean. Do you have to tell yourself every time that it's an illusion caused by atmospheric dust and light distorted by the sea, or do you simply enjoy the beauty of it?”

Light Enjoy Sun Sea Strange Shapes Ocean Illusion Dust

Book:Sweet Thursday

Source: Sweet Thursday

“God is the highest good of the reasonable creature. The enjoyment of him is our proper; and is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied. To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here. Better than fathers and mothers, husbands, wives, or children, or the company of any, or all earthly friends. These are but shadows; but the enjoyment of God is the substance. These are but scattered beams; but God is the sun. These are but streams; but God is the fountain. These are but drops, but God is the ocean.”

Source: The life and character of ... J. E. ... Together with a number of his sermons, etc

“Just like a sunbeam can't separate itself from the sun, and a wave can't separate itself from the ocean, we can't separate ourselves from one another. We are all part of a vast sea of love, one indivisible divine mind.”

Mind Spiritual Spirituality Sun Sea Divine Ocean Wave Lecturer Indivisible Sunbeams Sea Of Love

Book:A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles

Source: A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles

“If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle.”

Source: The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...

“He would not let her go. Even though, staring into her open eyes in the swirling salt-filled water, with sun flashing though each wave, he thought he would like this moment to be forever: the dark-haired woman on shore calling for their safety, the girl who had once jumped rope like a queen, now holding him with a fierceness that matched the power of the ocean—oh, insane, ludicrous, unknowable world! Look how she wanted to live, look how she wanted to hold on.”

World Looks Moments Eye Wanted Girl Water Dark Sun Forever Calling Ocean Safety Filled Wave Insane Staring Queens Shore Salt Rope Matched Open Eyes Fierceness Let Her Go

Book:Olive Kitteridge: Fiction

Source: Olive Kitteridge: Fiction

“And when we give each other Christmas gifts in His name, let us remember that He has given us the sun and the moon and the stars, and the earth with its forests and mountains and oceans--and all that lives and move upon them. He has given us all green things and everything that blossoms and bears fruit and all that we quarrel about and all that we have misused--and to save us from our foolishness, from all our sins, He came down to earth and gave us Himself.”

Giving Earth Remember Moving Names Given Stars Sin Sun Bears Moon Mountain Ocean Green Fruit Forests Christmas Foolishness Quarrels Down To Earth Christmas Gift Misused Green Things

Author:Sigrid Undset

“His love for my mother wasn't about looking back and loving something that would never change. It was about loving my mother for everything -- for her brokenness and her fleeing, for her being there right then in that moment before the sun rose and the hospital staff came in. It was about touching that hair with the side of his fingertip, and knowing yet plumbing fearlessly the depths of her ocean eyes.”

Source: The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic

“In vain have oceans been squandered on you, in vain the sun, wonderfully seen through Whitman’s eyes. You have used up the years and they have used up you, and still, and still, you have not written the poem.”

Years Stills Eye Used Sun Written Ocean Vain

Book:A Personal Anthology

Source: A Personal Anthology

“I'm so alive. As I stand facing the beauty of the never-ending Pacific Ocean, a late afternoon breeze blows down from the hills behind. As always, it is a beautiful day. The sun is making its final descent. The magic is about to begin. The skies are ready to burn with brilliance, as it turns from a soft blue to a bright orange. Looking towards the West, I stare in awe at the hypnotic power of the waves. A giant curl begins to take form, then breaks with a thundering clap as it crashes on the shore.”

Source: A Child Called It

“A land not mine, still forever memorable, the waters of its ocean chill and fresh. Sand on the bottom whiter than chalk, and the air drunk, like wine, late sun lays bare the rosy limbs of the pinetrees. Sunset in the ethereal waves: I cannot tell if the day is ending, or the world, or if the secret of secrets is inside me again.”

Ifs World Stills Water Secret Sun Forever Air Land Mines Ocean Late Wine Lays Bottom Wave Drunk Memorable Sand Sunset Limbs Chill Ethereal Rosy Chalk

Author:Anna Akhmatova

“You are the drop,and the ocean you are kindness,you are anger, you are sweetness,you are poison. Do not make me more disheartened. you are the chamber of the sun, you are the abode of venus, you are the garden of all hope. Oh, Beloved, let me enter.”

Kindness Sun Ocean Garden Let Me Beloved Poison Sweetness Chamber Venus Abode Disheartened

Author:Rumi

“Everything alive is part of each of us, and many things which do not move as we move are part of us. The sun is part of us, the earth, the sky, the stars, the rivers, and the oceans. All things are part of us, and we have come here to enjoy them and to thank God for them.”

Earth Moving Stars Enjoy Sun Alive Sky Ocean All Things Rivers Thank God

Author:William Saroyan

“Finally, he knew the kind of loving that made two one and understood Jane was his world. His ocean, his country, his sun, his rain, his very heart.”

World Heart Kind Made Two Country Sun Ocean Understood Rain Jane

Book:Into the Dreaming (with bonus material)

Source: Into the Dreaming (with bonus material)

“Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York; And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.”

Made House Sun Ocean Summer Winter Clouds Glorious Buried Bosoms Discontent Summer And Winter

Book:William Shakespeare: The Complete Works

Source: William Shakespeare: The Complete Works

“I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, and the round ocean, and the living air, and the blue sky, and in the mind of man.”

Men Life Mind Light Joy Felt Sun Air Sky Ocean Blue Rounds Setting Settings Sublime Dwelling Blue Sky

Author:William Wordsworth

“They say love dies between two people. That’s wrong. It doesn’t die. It just leaves you, goes away, if you aren’t good enough, worthy enough. It doesn’t die; you’re the the one that dies. It’s like the ocean: if you’re no good, if you begin to make a bad smell in it, it just spews you up somewhere to die. You die anyway, but I had rather drown in the ocean than be urped up onto a strip of dead beach and be dried away by the sun into a little foul smear with no name to it, just this was for an epitaph”

People Ifs Littles Two Enough Dies Names Sun Ocean Worthy Smell Beach Good Enough Foul Epitaph

Author:William Faulkner

“The sun hides not the ocean, which is the dark side of this earth, and which is two thirds of this earth. So, therefore, that mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true-- not true, or undeveloped. With books the same. The truest of all men was the Man of Sorrows, and the truest of all books is Solomon’s, and Ecclesiastes is the fine hammered steel of woe.”

Men Two Book Earth Joy Sides Dark Sun Fine Sorrow Ocean Thirds Being True Mortals Steel Woe Truest Dark Side Solomon Hammered Ecclesiastes

Book:Moby Dick (World Classics, Unabridged)

Source: Moby Dick (World Classics, Unabridged)

“Love was the secret behind everything...love was what made vineyards grow and filled the spaces between the stars, and fixed the ground beneath his feet. It didn't matter if you acknowledged it or not. You couldn't stop the motion of the earth or hold back the ocean tides, or break the pull of the moon. You couldn't stop the rain or pull a shade over the sun.”

Ifs Made Matter Earth Stars Grows Space Secret Behinds Break Sun Feet Moon Ocean Rain Filled Fixed Shade Tides Space Between Vineyards

Author:Lisa Kleypas

“The home we seek is in eternity; The Truth we seek is like a shoreless sea, Of which your paradise is but a drop. This ocean can be yours; why should you stop Beguiled by dreams of evanescent dew? The secrets of the sun are yours, but you Content yourself with motes trapped in its beams. Turn to what truly lives, reject what seems -- Which matters more, the body or the soul? Be whole: desire and journey to the Whole.”

Should Soul Matter Whole Home Dream Body Seems Desire Turns Secret Sun Journey Sea Ocean Eternity Paradise Rejects Trapped Dew Beam

Author:Farid al-Din Attar

“Very high, very grand, and very wise is the ocean of God, the Water of Life. You went after the form and were lead astray. How can you see it? You abandoned the truth. Sometimes it is named "tree," sometimes "sun," sometimes "ocean," sometimes "cloud," one thing from which scores of discoveries arise, its slightest definition an everlasting life.”

Inspirational Sometimes Form Water Sun Wise One Thing Tree Inspirational Life Ocean Discovery Clouds Definitions Arise Score Abandoned Everlasting Very Wise Everlasting Life Water Of Life

Author:Rumi

“Years! Years, ye shall mix with me! Ye shall grow a part Of the laughing Sea; Of the moaning heart Of the glittered wave Of the sun-gleam's dart In the ocean-grave. Fair, cold, and faithless wert thou, my own! For that I love Thy heart of stone! From the heights above To the depths below, Where dread things move, There is naught can show A life so trustless! Proud be thy crown! Ruthless, like none, save the Sea, alone!”

Life Years Heart Shows Moving Grows My Own Laughing Sun Sea Cold Proud Ocean Fairs Stones Depth Wave Graves Height Dread Crowns Ruthless Gleam Faithless Moaning Heart Of Stone

Author:Voltairine de Cleyre

“Greatness exists like an ocean within you. Why do you want to act like a fish out of water, wriggling on the sand under the scorching sun? Look! The water is just one millimeter away! Jump in!”

Want Looks Water Sun Self Esteem Greatness Ocean Fishes Esteem Just One Sand Within You Scorching

Author:Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

“I saw dawn upon them like the sun a vision of a time when all men walk proudly through the earth and the bombs and missiles lie at the bottom of the ocean like the bones of dinosaurs buried under the shale of eras.”

Men Earth Lying Time Walks Vision Sun Saws Ocean Bottom Bones Eras Dawn Bombs Buried Missiles Dinosaurs

Author:Dudley Randall