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“I love to be by the ocean and have always done my best thinking by the sea. The ebb and flow is like a brain massage and very calming. I am also inspired by seeing kindness in others. It touches me and reminds me to be kind as well.”

Thinking Wells Kind Done Brain Kindness Seeing Sea Ocean Flow Inspired Be Kind Massage Calming Touch Me Ebb And Flow

Author:Roma Downey

“I do a lot of work in travel and tourism, and I think this story is in the book. This woman is in a hammock, and she's got the beach below her and the sky above her, and the ocean beyond her. She's relaxing. She's got a drink in her hand and a book. Every woman sees this picture and says, I want to be in that hammock. Every guy sees the picture and says, I want to be in that hammock with that woman. It works for everybody.”

Thinking Want Book Stories Hands Guy Sky Drink Ocean Beach Tourism Travel And Tourism Hammocks

Author:Frank Luntz

“That's what I think people sense when they get hooked by surfing - hooked by their relationship with the ocean. All of a sudden, they're part of something that's bigger than them.”

People Thinking Sports Ocean Bigger Inspirational Sports Surfing Hooked

Author:Nick Carroll

“Climate change has always been sort of my main focus. I think also with [what happened in Fukushima, Japan] there's still a lot to think about in terms of what's coming down the pike into the world's oceans, too.”

Thinking World Stills Term Focus Happened Ocean Climate Climate Change Japan Fukushima

Author:Rufus Wainwright

“We all know what the moon does to the ocean in the form of tides. Well, we are about 85% salt water; don't you think it is also affecting you? Maybe you cannot quantify that effect along with zillions of other effects, but certainly you are being affected.”

Thinking Knows Wells Doe Form Water Effects Moon Ocean Affected Salt Tides Salt Water

Author:Bryan Kest

“I am involved in making measurements in polar oceans, and they are changing more than anything else. I think we have to be prepared for major changes associated with the melting of floating ice and the melting of the Greenland glacier.”

Thinking Involved Ocean Majors Prepared Ice Be Prepared Floating Measurement Melting Glaciers Major Change Greenland

Author:Walter Munk

“I think the best way to protect the ocean is to encourage people onto it and into it.”

People Thinking Way Protect Ocean Best Way

Author:Jon Bowermaster

“I think food is the great equalizer. Other than the ocean and the air, food is the thing that we all share in common. I think along with that comes the question of why are some people starving, and why do some people produce more food than they need, and why is food going to waste.”

People Thinking Needs Common Air Share Produce Waste Ocean Starving Equalizer

Author:Brett Dennen

“Think about this: If water is the blood of our planet flowing through veinous rivers, streams, and into our oceans, what does that make coral? Our heart. We simply cannot survive without our heart; therefore, it's mandatory we heal and protect our coral reefs now.”

Ifs Thinking Heart Doe Water Blood Planets Protect Ocean Rivers Heal Streams Our Planet Reefs Coral Reefs

Author:Ian Somerhalder

“Which do you think is more my friend, the water in the four great oceans or the tears that you have shed on this long way of taking birth again and again?”

Thinking Way Long Water Four Tears Birth Ocean My Friends Shed Again And Again Long Way

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Most people have made this mistake of thinking Middle-earth is a particular kind of earth or is another planet of the science fiction sort but it's just an old fashioned word for this world we live in, as imagined surrounded by the Ocean.”

People Thinking World Kind Made Earth Mistake Fiction Middle This World Particular Planets Ocean Science Fiction Old Fashioned Middle Earth

Author:J. R. R. Tolkien

“The US government is like an ocean liner, not like a speed boat. It's harder to turn around than people might think.”

People Thinking Government Might Turns Ocean Harder Speed Boat

Author:Willie Parker

“Take something you really don't think about: Plastics in the ocean. I mean plastics in the ocean have an enormous ecological effect.”

Thinking Mean Effects Ocean Enormous Plastic Ecological

Author:Noam Chomsky

“The executive orders. Barack Obama is doing it again with this ban that he thinks is in perpetuity on offshore drilling in the Atlantic Ocean and north of Alaska. It's bad what Obama's trying to do, and I know exactly what he is doing with this. But the first thing is, the areas that Obama has, by executive order, declared off-limits are areas nobody wants to drill in anyway. There are no plans to drill off the coast, the East Coast of the country out in the Atlantic, and there are no plans to drill north of Alaska in the Arctic Circle.”

Thinking Trying Country Ocean Barack

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“There's a huge challenge around coral bleaching specifically, because when most people think about coral, they think about the beautiful, white sculpture sitting on their mantle. And it looks so pristine and clean and beautiful. It's not supposed to look like that when it's in the ocean. It has color, it has animal flesh living on it, it has plants living inside of that. They look very, very different when they're healthy in the ocean than they do when they're sitting in somebody's home.”

People Thinking Different Home Beautiful Challenges Animal Healthy Ocean Plant

Author:Jeff Orlowski

“One of the reasons I love language is that concerning semiotics, language is an arbitrary sign system, which means the signs within it are free-floating, but we put them in a certain order to get them to have meaning for us. If we left them alone, they'd be like water, like the ocean. It would be just this vast field of free-floating matter or signs, so in this way, I think language and water have much in common. It's only us bringing grammar and syntax and diction and the human need for meaning that orders language, hierarchizes it.”

Thinking Mean Reason Language Water Common Ocean Semiotics

Author:Lidia Yuknavitch

“When I'm out in the ocean and I watch a seabird, I think, "Oh, I probably I know what that seabird is doing" - and I don't study seabirds. And the same for the turtles and on and on. But with the whales, a lot of the time, I have no idea what they're doing, and they're the ones I study.”

Thinking Study Ocean

Author:Hal Whitehead

“Most people think visual information is more important than aural information - like, what's this big deal about sound? And why should I bother to listen, rather than look? And here are the facts: there are blind species, in the backs of the caves, the bottoms of the oceans. It's not essential on planet Earth to be able to see, to be a species. But there are no deaf animal species. You have to be able to hear, or you won't get the information you need in order to survive.”

People Thinking Important Earth Animal Ocean Blind Bottom Bother Deaf Planet Earth

Author:Gordon Hempton

“I think space exploration is very important. I think there is very intelligent life on Mars. I believe that Martians are spying on us from the bottom of the ocean.”

Thinking Believe Important I Believe Space Ocean Intelligent Bottom Exploration Mars Space Exploration Martians Intelligent Life Colonizing Mars

Author:Annabella Sciorra

“The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean- Holding the curve of one position, Counting an endless repetition.”

Thinking Heart Greater Position Positive Ocean Endless Devotion Shore Repetition Curves Counting

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Thinking about something is like picking up a stone when taking a walk, either while skipping rocks on the beach, for example, or looking for a way to shatter the glass doors of a museum. When you think about something, it adds a bit of weight to your walk, and as you think about more and more things you are liable to feel heavier and heavier, until you are so burdened you cannot take any further steps, and can only sit and stare at the gentle movements of the ocean waves or security guards, thinking too hard bout too many things to do anything else.”

“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 it we are going back from whence we came.”

“I walk outside and scream at the top of my lungs, and it maybe travels two blocks. A whale unleashes his cry, and it travels hundreds or even thousands of miles. Every whale in the ocean will at one time or another run into that song. And I figure whales probably don't edit. If they think it, they say it...Whale talk is the truth, and in a very short period of time, if you're a whale, you know exactly what it is to be you.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Two Running Song Walks Cry Figures Periods Ocean Miles Block One Time Scream Be You Lungs Edits Whales

Author:Chris Crutcher

“Lines I die but when the grave shall press The heart so long endeared to thee When earthy cares no more distress And earthy joys are nought to me. Weep not, but think that I have past Before thee o'er the sea of gloom. Have anchored safe and rest at last Where tears and mouring can not come. 'Tis I should weep to leave thee here On that dark ocean sailing drear With storms around and fears before And no kind light to point the shore. But long or short though life may be 'Tis nothing to eternity. We part below to meet on high Where blissful ages never die.”

Thinking Love Should Heart Kind May Long Light Care Age Lasts Past Joy Dies Lines Dark Sea Tears Safe Ocean Eternity Presses Storm Graves Thee Shore Distress Can Not Sailing Gloom

Author:Emily Bronte

“I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in that endless necropolis, tens of thousands more would remain unexplored, forgotten forever. I felt myself surrounded by millions of abandoned pages, by worlds and souls without an owner sinking in an ocean of darkness, while the world that throbbed outside the library seemed to be losing its memory, day after day, unknowingly, feeling all the wiser the more it forgot.”

Source: The Shadow Of The Wind

“You’re like a lighthouse shining beside the sea of humanity, motionless: all you can see is your own reflection in the water. You’re alone, so you think it’s a vast, magnificent panorama. You haven’t sounded the depths. You simply believe in the beauty of God’s creation. But I have spent all this time in the water, diving deep into the howling ocean of life, deeper than anyone. While you were admiring the surface, I saw the shipwrecks, the drowned bodies, the monsters of the deep”

Source: Fantasio and other plays

“Your head's like mine, like all our heads; big enough to contain every god and devil there ever was. Big enough to hold the weight of oceans and the turning stars. Whole universes fit in there! But what do we choose to keep in this miraculous cabinet? Little broken things, sad trinkets that we play with over and over. The world turns our key and we play the same little tune again and again and we think that tune's all we are.”

Thinking World Littles Enough Play Whole Bigs Turns Universe Stars Mines Broken Keys Fit Ocean Devil Weight Tunes Again And Again Miraculous Cabinets Trinkets Broken Things

Author:Grant Morrison

“she is no longer the beautiful woman she was. she sends photos of herself sitting upon a rock by the ocean alone and damned. I could have had her once. I wonder if she thinks I could have saved her?”

Ifs Thinking Beautiful Wonder Rocks Ocean Sitting Saved Beautiful Women

Author:Charles Bukowski

“He thinks of that ocean house and wishes he were back in his former life or that one could take one moment and remain inside it like an egg inside its shell, instead of constantly being hurried into the future by good luck or bad.”

Thinking Moments House Wish Ocean Luck Former Eggs Shells Good Luck Former Life

Book:Black dog, red dog: poems

Source: Black dog, red dog: poems

“It occurs to me that the peculiarity of most things we think of as fragile is how tough they truly are. There were tricks we did with eggs, as children, to show how they were, in reality, tiny load-bearing marble halls; while the beat of the wings of a butterfly in the right place, we are told, can create a hurricane across an ocean. Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkable difficult to kill.”

“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 ...

“Women Are Not Roses Women have no beginning only continual flows. Though rivers flow women are not rivers. Women are not roses they are not oceans or stars. i would like to tell her this but i think she already knows.”

Thinking Knows Stars Ocean Flow Rivers Rose

Book:Women are Not Roses

Source: Women are Not Roses

“I can never drive my car over a bridge without thinking of suicide. I can never look at a lake or an ocean without thinking of suicide.”

Thinking Looks I Can Car Ocean Suicide Bridges Lakes

Book:The Captain is Out to Lunch

Source: The Captain is Out to Lunch

“As long as people have been on this earth, the moon has been a mystery to us. Think about it. She is strong enough to pull the oceans, and when she dies away, she always comes back again. My mama used to tell me Our Lady lived on the moon and that I should dance when her face was bright and hibernate when it was dark.”

People Thinking Should Long Has Beens Enough Earth Faces Used Dies Strong Dark Mystery Moon Ocean Strong Enough Mama Back Again

Book:The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

“Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had to live on some high rock, on such a narrow ledge that he'd only room to stand, and the ocean, everlasting darkness, everlasting solitude, everlasting tempest around him, if he had to remain standing on a square yard of space all his life, a thousand years, eternity, it were better to live so than to die at once. Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!”

Source: The 10 Greatest Books of All Time

“There’s something very freeing about losing the anchors that have always defined you. Frightening, sad, but exhilarating in a poignant way, as well. You’re free to float to the moon and evaporate or sink to the bottom of the deepest ocean. But you’re free to explore. Some people confuse that with drifting, I suppose. I like to think of it as growing.”

People Thinking Way Inspirational Wells Growing Moon Ocean Losing Bottom Defined Frightening Floats Anchors Insperational Drifting Exhilarating Poignant

Author:Deborah Smith

“I think there are two different oceans - the one that plays with you in the summer, and the one that gets so mad in the winter.”

Thinking Two Different Play Ocean Summer Mad Winter

Book:Handle with Care: A Novel

Source: Handle with Care: A Novel

“On our honeymoon we talked and talked. We stayed in a beachfront villa, and we drank rum and lemonade and talked so much that I never even noticed what color the sea was. Whenever I need to stop and remind myself how much I once loved Andrew, I only need to think about this. That the ocean covers seven tenths of the earth's surface, and yet my husband could make me not notice it.”

Thinking Needs Earth Sea Color Husband Ocean Seven Surface My Husband Drank Andrew Honeymoon Lemonade Rum Villa

Book:Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold

Source: Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold

“If men will permit themselves to think, as rational beings ought to think, nothing can appear more ridiculous and absurd, exclusive of all moral reflections, than to be at the expence of building navies, filling them with men, and then hauling them into the ocean, to try which can sink each other fastester. Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infintely more advantage than any victory with all its expence. But this, though it best answers the purpose of Nations, does not that of Court Governments, whose habited policy is pretence for taxation, places, and offices.”

“Indeed, I cannot think why the whole bed of the ocean is not one solid mass of oysters, so prolific the creatures seem. Ah, I am wandering! Strange how the brain controls the brain! What was I saying, Watson?”

Thinking Whole Seems Brain Strange Bed Creatures Ocean Mass Wander Oysters Watson

Book:Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Stories

Source: Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Stories

“You wouldn't think you could kill an ocean, would you? But we'll do it one day. That's how negligent we are.”

Thinking One Day Ocean Air Pollution

Book:Blood Hunt

Source: Blood Hunt

“This is what separates artists from ordinary people: the belief, deep in our hearts, that if we build our castles well enough, somehow the ocean won't wash them away. I think this is a wonderful kind of person to be.”

People Ifs Thinking Wells Heart Kind Persons Enough Artist Belief Wonderful Ocean Ordinary Ordinary People Castles

Author:Anne Lamott

“I will not vote for a candidate who thinks you can 'pray away the gay,' I will not vote for a candidate who thinks that he has more rights to my uterus than I do, I will not vote for a candidate who thinks that it's okay to dump toxic waste in the ocean.”

Thinking Rights Praying Gay Waste Ocean Okay Vote Candidates Toxic Dump Uterus Toxic Waste

Author:Sophia Bush

“I have never cared about setting world records, or filling my boat with fish, or, for that matter, even catching fish. I go for the experience of spending six hours in the arms of the ocean, never thinking of a single thing except chasing fish.”

Thinking World Matter Hours Records Arms Ocean Six Fishes Spending Setting Boat Settings Chasing Filling Catching World Records Catching Fish

Author:Jimmy Buffett

“I'm always happy when I'm surrounded by water, I think I'm a Mermaid or I was a mermaid. The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective… it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you’ve been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean.”

“Faith comes and goes. It rises and falls like the tides of an invisible ocean. If it is presumptuous to think that faith will stay with you forever, it is just as presumptuous to think that unbelief will.”

Ifs Thinking Fall Forever Ocean Invisible Tides Comes And Goes Unbelief Rise And Fall Presumptuous

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“I think people had somehow gotten the sense that we have explored everything, when that isn't the case. We so know so little about the ocean, and so much of it is being destroyed.”

People Thinking Knows Littles Cases Ocean Destroyed

Author:James Cameron

“tiny: but there is the word, this word phil wrayson taught me once: weltschmerz. it's the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be. i live in a big goddamned weltzschermz ocean, you know? and so do you.”

Thinking Knows World Feels Should Doe Bigs Lines Taught Ocean Tiny

Author:David Levithan

“I don't know if anyone's ever told you this", he begins. He doesn't blush, and his eyes don't dart away. Instead I find myself starring into a pair of oceans - one perfect, the other blemished by that tiny ripple. "You're very attractive." I've been complimented on my appearance before. But never in his tone of voice. Of all the things he's said, I don't know why this catches me off guard. But it startles me so much that without thinking I blurt out, "I could say the same about you." I pause. "In case you didn't know." A slow grin spreads across his face. "Oh, trust me. I know.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Said Eye Faces Voice Perfect Cases Ocean Appearance Spread Tiny Attractive Tone His Eyes Pairs Pauses Trust Me Ripple Catch Me

Author:Marie Lu

“Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities - the political, the religious, the educational authorities - who attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations, informing - forming in our minds - their view of reality. To think for yourself you must question authority and learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable open-mindedness, chaotic, confused vulnerability to inform yourself.”

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