Best ocean & wave Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I am humility, nothing more and nothing less. I am one blade of grass in a sea of grass. I am one wave in an endless ocean of waves. I am one glowing star in a galaxy of stars.”

Stars Sea Humility Buddhism Balance Ocean Wave Endless Grass Galaxy Blades Glowing Blades Of Grass

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The reality is I'm kind of like an ocean. Everything is calm, calm, calm. I'm good. When the ball goes up in the air, the waves start rocking.”

Kind Reality Air Ocean Balls Calm Wave Up In The Air

Author:J. R. Smith

“Imagine a vast ocean. Feel that you are part of that ocean. Imagine that each wave in the ocean is slowly moving through you. Feel that each wave is a wave of joy.”

Feels Moving Joy Imagine Ocean Wave Imagine That Visualization Vast Ocean

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

“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)

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

Ocean Wave

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

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

Doe Stills Ocean Perfection Wave

Author:Mooji

“Organic life beneath the shoreless waves Was born and rais’d in Ocean’s pearly caves First forms minute, unseen by spheric glass, Move on the mud, or pierce the watery mass; These, as successive generations bloom, New powers acquire, and larger limbs assume; Whence countless groups of vegetation spring, And breathing realms of fin, and feet and wing.”

Firsts Moving Form Born Generations Groups Feet Minutes Ocean Mass Spring Wings Assuming Glasses Wave Breathing Realms Acquire Unseen Mud Caves Limbs Pierce Vegetation Fins Organic Life

Author:Erasmus Darwin

“I thought Big Sur would be a great break after the tour. You'd walk down this rickety ladder to this not-very-pretty beach scene; crashing waves, moss-covered rocks, weird ocean life. It was scary. It summed up alot of things in my life, like 'I should be enjoying this, but I'm not.”

Inspirational Should Bigs Would Be Enjoy Walks Break Rocks Scene Ocean Wave Scary Beach Covered Ladders Moss Big Sur Crashing Waves

Author:Trent Reznor

“Thoughts come and go. It's impossible to stop your thoughts, but the idea is that the thoughts are kind of like waves on the ocean. That's Jon Kabat-Zinn's big analogy and that this is actually kind of diving under the waves. And you know it's kind of interesting.”

Knows Kind Ideas Bigs Interesting Impossible Ocean Wave Comes And Goes Analogies Diving

Author:Anderson Cooper

“If you've ever swum in the ocean, and you go underneath the waves, you know, you're kind of moved by the currents, but you're not being slapped around at the top of the water by the waves. And that's sort of what meditation is like.”

Ifs Knows Kind Water Meditation Ocean Moved Wave Currents

Author:Anderson Cooper

“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)

“Our lives are waves that come up out of the ocean of eternity, break upon the beach of earth, and lapse back to the ocean of eternity. Some are sunlit, some run in storm and rain; one is a quiet ripple, another is a thunderous breaker; and once in many centuries comes a great tidal wave that sweeps over a continent; but all go back to the sea and lie equally level there.”

Life Running Earth Lying Levels Break Our Lives Sea Century Quiet Ocean Rain Eternity Wave Come Up Storm Beach Continents Ripple Lapses Tidal Waves

Author:Austin O'Malley

“Erie, and Ontario, and Huron, and Superior, and Michigan possess an ocean-like expansiveness, with many of the ocean's noblest traits... they are swept by Borean and dismasting blasts as direful as any that lash the salted wave; they know what shipwrecks are, for out of sight of land, however inland, they have drowned full many a midnight ship with all its shrieking crew.”

Knows Land Ocean Sight Wave Superiors Ships Traits Crew Midnight Blast Michigan Lashes Shipwreck Ontario Expansiveness

Book:Moby Dick the Whale Volume I EasyRead Ed

Source: Moby Dick the Whale Volume I EasyRead Ed

“If the ocean was pure mind and I was a wave, I would be in terror if Itried to distinguish myself fromthe water that produced me.What is a wave without water, and what is a mind without God?”

Ifs Mind Would Be Water Pure Ocean Wave Terror Without God

Book:The Quiet Answer

Source: The Quiet Answer

“Michael Jackson was part of that tremendous wave in the ocean of human expression and it happened to be located first and foremost in Gary, Indiana, working class.”

Firsts Humans Class Happened Expression Ocean Wave Working Class Indiana Gary

Author:Cornel West

“God is in you as the ocean is in the wave.”

Ocean Wave

Author:Eric Butterworth

“It is true what Rimbaud said; If you think a book is strong enough, try it at the ocean, in the wind, at the waves. If the book can resist the ocean, then it exists. Otherwise, throw it away.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Said Book Enough Strong Wind Ocean Wave Strong Enough

Author:Klaus Kinski

“I just love being on the ocean and being creative on the waves and the feeling you get when you're surfing. All around it's beautiful and fun.”

Feelings Beautiful Fun Love Is Creative Ocean Wave Be Creative Surfing

Author:Bethany Hamilton

“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

“I started with [Leo] Tolstoy and I was overwhelmed. Tolstoy writes like an ocean, in huge, rolling waves, and it doesn't look like it was processed through his thinking. It feels very natural. You don't question whether Tolstoy's right or wrong. His philosophy is housed in interrelating characters, so it's not up for grabs.”

Thinking Feels Writing Looks Philosophy Character Natural Huge Ocean Wave Rolling Overwhelmed

Author:Mel Brooks

“Just as the waves can subside to reveal the stillness of the ocean's depths, so too is it possible to calm the turbulence of our mind to reveal its natural pristine clarity.”

Mind Natural Ocean Depth Calm Wave Clarity Stillness Turbulence Pristine

Book:How to Meditate: A Practical Guide: Second Edition (Large Print 16pt)

Source: How to Meditate: A Practical Guide: Second Edition (Large Print 16pt)

“Malibu: With sounds of waves crashing, and the ocean at the doorstep, you feel like you are hours away from civilization. And with L.A. traffic, YOU ARE.”

Feels Sound Hours Like You Civilization Ocean Wave Traffic Doorstep Malibu

Author:Jennifer Harrison

“Autumn comes to the sea with a fresh blaze of phosphorescence, when every wave crest is aflame. Here and there the whole surface may glow with sheets of cold fire, while below schools of fish pour through the water like molten metal.”

May Whole School Water Fire Sea Cold Ocean Wave Fishes Surface Autumn Metals Sheets Here And There Schools Of Fish

Book:The Sea Around Us

Source: The Sea Around Us

“I was born by the sea, and I have noticed that all the great events of my life have taken place by the sea. My first idea of movement, of the dance, certainly came from the rhythm of the waves.”

Firsts Ideas Born Taken Sea Events Movement Ocean Wave Rhythm Great Events

Author:Isadora Duncan

“There are a lot of similarities between music and surfing. There's a rhythm to both of them and with sound waves and ocean waves, you see patterns, plus the breathing is all part of it.”

Sound Ocean Wave Patterns Rhythm Breathing Plus Surfing Similarity Ocean Wave Sound Waves

Author:Jon Foreman

“I try to surf everyday or at least go for a walk on the beach if the waves are flat. The more I travel, the more I appreciate where I live and the ocean.”

Ifs Trying Walks Ocean Appreciate Everyday Wave Beach Flats Surf

Author:Jon Foreman

“Between highway sounds I heard waves and thought how the curve of the coastline here had sheltered and nurtured live-born sharks, humans, and migrating whales. Here, at the edge of the continent, time and distance stopped; in the lull between sets of waves I could get a fresh start.”

Humans Sound Born Heard Ocean Distance Wave Edges Continents Curves Highways Sharks Whales Fresh Start Lulls Coastline Time And Distance

Author:Gretel Ehrlich

“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

“Nothing is distinct and separate. The waves of the ocean arise and have a separate birth, crashing on the shore, but then back into the ocean they go. They never left it. There is no movement in Nirvana.”

Suffering Left Movement Buddhism Birth Ocean Wave Arise Shore

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We hail the return of the day of thy birth, Fair Columbia! washed by the waves of two oceans Where men from the farthest dominions of earth Rear altars to Freedom, and pay their devotions; Where our fathers in fight, nobly strove for the Right, Struck down their fierce foemen or put them to flight; Through the long lapse of ages, that so there might be An asylum for all in the Land of the Free.”

Source: The microcosm, and other poems

“The fortunate one uses the instrument of deep meditation and probes deep into his heart. Then the waves of love gain the depth of the ocean, and the ocean of love flows and fills the heart and thrills every particle of being. Every wave of life then flows in the fullness of love, in the fullness of divine glory, in the fullness of grace, in bliss and peace.”

Heart Use Grace Meditation Divine Ocean Glory Gains Flow Instruments Depth Wave Fortunate Bliss Fullness Particles Deep Meditation Wave Of Life

Author:Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“Whether any surfer wants to admit it or not, I think we've all had moments like looking at nice waves coming through the lineup maybe, only for a moment, feeling that we are in the presence of something holy. There is a spiritual-ness when you actually get in harmony with something as natural as the waves and the ocean, and yeah, it is definitely a religious experience.”

Thinking Want Moments Feelings Spiritual Natural Religious Nice Holy Ocean Harmony Yeah Wave Surfer Religious Experience

Author:Gerry Lopez

“I supply my own angels and demons. I exist on a stony beach, which lowers itself in waves toward a protective ocean. A dog barks; a child cries; the day sinks and becomes night. You can never scare me. No human being will be able to scare me ever again. I have a prayer that I repeat to myself in absolute stillness: May a wind come to stir up the ocean and the stifling twilight. May a bird come from water out there and explode the silence with its call.”

Source: Images: my life in film

“Think about the holes children make when they dig in the sand on the seashore. When the waves come in, the holes are swallowed up by the ocean. Similarly, when we know Christ, our physical death is overwhelmed by the love and grace of God. Death is swallowed up in the victory of Christ.”

Thinking Knows Children Christ Grace Victory Ocean Wave Holes Sand Overwhelmed Grace Of God Seashore

Book:Wisdom for Each Day

Source: Wisdom for Each Day

“You have come from God, you are a spark of His Glory; you are a wave of that Ocean of Bliss; you will get peace only when you again merge in Him.”

Ocean Glory Wave Bliss Sparks You Again

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“And evermore the waters worship God;-- And bards and prophets tune their mystic lyres While listening to the music of the waves!”

Water Listening Ocean Worship Wave Prophet Tunes Mystic Worship God Evermore Bards

Book:Dictionary of poetical quotations

Source: Dictionary of poetical quotations

“There is some evidence that average wave heights are slowly rising, and that freak waves of eighty or ninety feet are becoming more common. Wave heights off the coast of England have risen an average of 25 percent over the past couple of decades, which converts to a twenty-foot increase in the highest waves over the next half century. One cause may be the tightening of environmental laws, which has reduced the amount of oil flushed into the oceans by oil tankers.”

“People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.”

“I love being in the ocean. I love the unpredictability of it- size of wave, animals you see, etc.”

Love Is Animal Ocean Size Wave Etc Unpredictability

Author:Francis Chan

“Consciousness is a vast ocean and thinking is the waves & ripples on the surface of the ocean.”

Thinking Consciousness Ocean Wave Surface Ripple Vast Ocean

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Strictly speaking, "you" cannot become enlightened, because who you take yourself to be is like a ripple in the ocean of consciousness - or a little wave if you're a VIP - and the ripple doesn't become enlightened until it realizes that its ripple-identity is ultimately a misperception, that it is the ocean taking on a fleeting ripple-form.”

Ifs Littles Form Realizing Consciousness Identity Ocean Wave Enlightened Fleeting Ripple Misperception Vip

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“I can tell that the Greater Yellowstone from the Tetons, to the Lamar Valley where wolves howl and grizzlies roam, acts as my spine, my range of memory that ties me to landscape of Other. And that the ocean from the rocky coast of Maine, to the Florida everglades, to the looming cliffs at Big Sur, sustain me, remind me we are nothing without salt water, wind, and waves.”

I Can Bigs Water Memories Greater Wind Ocean Wave Landscape Range Ties Valleys Salt Florida Coast Cliffs Spine Howl Maine Looming Grizzlies Salt Water Yellowstone Everglades Big Sur

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“Once more upon the waters! yet once more! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider.”

Knows Water Sea Ocean Bounds Wave Ships Riders

Author:Lord Byron

“It is not one man nor a million, but the spirit of liberty that must be preserved. The waves which dash upon the shore are, one by one, broken, but the ocean conquers nevertheless. It overwhelms the Armada, it wears out the rock. In like manner, whatever the struggle of individuals, the great cause will gather strength.”

Men Spirit Individual Causes Liberty Millions Struggle Rocks Broken Ocean Wave Conquer One Man Shore Nevertheless

Author:Lord Byron

“Does the sailor then live in exultation of having conquered the waves, or is he humbled by the magnanimity of the ocean? Does the climber believe that he conquered the mountain, or does he dissolve inwardly and face again and again all the times when the mountain was kind to him who was not even a little rag doll in the clutches of a giant? The craving is to merge, to become One with the mountain, the sea, the forest and the universe.”

Believe Kind Littles Doe Faces Universe Sea Mountain Ocean Wave Forests Giants Again And Again Craving Dolls Sailor Rags Clutch Climbers Magnanimity

Author:Zeina

“Do not try to correct the mind. Trying to correct the mind is like trying to correct the waves in the ocean. Can you stop the waves in the ocean? If you want to see an ocean without waves you only have to dive deeper. When you dive deep inside you will experience the stillness of the ocean. And if it is all frozen that is enlightenment.”

Ifs Want Trying Mind Ocean Enlightenment Wave Deeper Stillness Frozen Deep Inside

Author:Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

“Her mighty lakes, like oceans of liquid silver; her mountains with their right aerial tints; her valleys, teeming with wild fertility; her tremendous cataracts, thundering in their solitudes; her boundless plains, waving with spontaneous verdure; her brought deep rivers, rolling in solemn silence to the ocean; her trackless forests, where vegetation puts forth all its magnificence; her skies, kindling waves in the magic of the summer clouds and glorious sunshine;-no, never need an American look beyond his own country for the sublime and beautiful of natural scenery.”

“If you have a guru, leave him; if you don't have, get one. In other words, keep changing your gurus! Ocean's wisdom comes from knowing many ships and many fishes, many storms and many waves!”

Ifs Knowing Ocean Wave Fishes Storm Ships Guru

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

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