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1. “The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.” – Vladimir Nabokov

2. “Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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3. “I wish to spend a lifetime near a lighthouse where loneliness will be the glimmer of luminous prancing upon ocean waves… rising and falling only for my breathing.” – Munia Khan

4. “Just take your time – wave comes. Let the other guys go, catch another one.” – Duke Kahanamoku

5. “When you do dance, I wish you a wave o’ the sea, that you might ever do nothing but that.” – William Shakespeare

6. “The waves broke and spread their waters swiftly over the shore. One after another they massed themselves and fell; the spray tossed itself back with the energy of their fall. The waves were steeped deep-blue save for a pattern of diamond-pointed light on their backs which rippled as the backs of great horses ripple with muscles as they move. The waves fell; withdrew and fell again, like the thud of a great beast stamping.” – Virginia Woolf

7. “You’re not a wave, you’re a part of the ocean.” – Mitch Albom

8. “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

9. “It’s a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life.” – Jeff Bridges

10. “There is no new wave, only the sea.” – Claude Chabrol

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11. “When they are gay, the waves echo their gaiety; but when they are sad, then every breaker, as it rolls, seems to bring additional sadness, and to speak to us of hopelessness and of the pettiness of all our joys.” – Baroness Orczy

12. “Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.” – John Tyndall

13. “You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.” – Jon Kabat-Zinn

14. “Waves are inspiring not because they rise and fail, but because each time they fall. They never fail to rise again.” – Josh Billings

15. “I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other.” – Naguib Mahfouz

16. “Just like the ocean always in love with the moon.” – Jeff Buckley

17. “When the wild wave meets the calm beach, when anger reaches tranquillity, anger disappears, serenity triumphs, the wave experiences enlightenment!” – Mehmet Murat ildan

18. “The waves of the sea help me get back to me.” – Jill Davis

19. “Don’t worry if you’re making waves simply by being yourself. The moon does it all the time.” – Scott Stabile

20. “Listen to the sound of waves within you.” – Rumi

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21. “Feelings are much like waves: we can’t stop them from coming, but we can choose which one to surf.” – Jonatan Mårtensson

22. “Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life.” – Tamora Pierce

23. “For a surfer, it’s never-ending. There’s always some wave you want to surf.” – Kelly Slater

24. “The sea, to be happy, like hearts, must be stirred.” – Will Advise

25. “You never really know what’s coming. A small wave, or maybe a big one. All you can really do is hope that when it comes, you can surf over it, instead of drown in its monstrosity.” – Alysha Speer

26. “You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.” – Henry David Thoreau

27. “The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea.” – Isak Dinesen

28. “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

29. “Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.” – Joseph Campbell

30. “Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.” – Marcus Aurelius

Waves quotes to ease your mind

31. “I like being in warm weather. I find that relaxes me. I like being near water. I like sitting on a beach and sort of hearing the water, watching waves break, looking at the shimmering. I find that really relaxing.” – Stephen A. Schwarzman

32. “I love the smell of rain, and I love the sound of the ocean waves.” – Amy Purdy

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33. “Dance with the waves, move with the sea. Let the rhythm of the water set your soul free.” – Christy Ann Martine

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34. “The sea is a desert of waves, A wilderness of water.” – Langston Hughes

35. “Currents shift and move but it’s only where the water breaks that the wave becomes visible. A pandemonium occurs, where substances collide, and then something new comes into being.” – Clare Strahan

36. “Surfing waves of water or clouds of powder snow is the best feeling on earth.” – Hannah Teter

37. “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.” – Marianne Williamson

38. “Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand.” – Muhammad Ali

39. “But where, after all, would be the poetry of the sea were there no wild waves?” – Joshua Slocum

40. “Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.” – Ovid

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41. “Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.” – Swami Sivananda

42. “A wave can kill you. Or you can ride it. It’s sometimes more dangerous to shy away. You can’t live your life in fear. You have to be prepared to get on your board and stand on your feet. If you are in the barrel of a wave you have to ignore the fear. You have to be in that moment. You have to carve on through. You get scared, and the next thing you know you are off your board and smashing your head on a rock. I’m never going to live in fear.” – Matt Haig

43. “Let the waves carry you where the light can not.” – Mohit Kaushik

44. “Waves are not measured in feet or inches, they are measured in increments of fear.” – Buzzy Trent

45. “In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.” – Dogen

46. “Being creative on the waves is challenging, but we each create art in our own way.” – Bethany Hamilton

47. “The castle of Cair Paravel on its little hill towered up above them; before them were the sands, with rocks and little pools of salt water, and seaweed, and the smell of the sea and long miles of bluish-green waves breaking for ever and ever on the beach. And oh, the cry of the seagulls! Have you ever heard it? Can you remember?” – C. S. Lewis

48. “Just as the ocean has waves or the sun has rays, so the minds’s own radiance is its thoughts and emotions.” – Sogyal Rinpoche

49. “The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.” – Cyril Connolly

50. “Life comes at us in waves. We can’t predict or control those waves, but we can learn to surf.” – Dan Millman

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1. "Life's a beach, find your wave."

2. "If there's a will, there's a wave."

3. "Home is where the waves are."

4. "Let's dip our toes in the ocean."

5. "Mermaids make waves, not ripples."

6. "You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf." — Jon Kabat-Zinn

7. "Catch you on the next wave."

8. "Don't worry if you're making waves simply by being yourself. The moon does it all the time." — Scott Stabile

9. "What if the waves get bigger, to make you stronger?"

10. "Dance with the waves, move with the sea. Let the rhythm of the water set your soul free." — Christy Ann Martine

11. "Let the ocean worry about being blue." — Alabama Shakes, "Hang Loose"

12. "The waves are calling, so I need to go."

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13. "She's got oceans tucked away in her hair, poems swim under her skin." — Sanober Khan

14. "You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop." — Rumi

15. "As endless as the ocean, as timeless as the tides."

16. "Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

17. "Just like the ocean always in love with the moon." — Jeff Buckley, "Opened Once"

18. "I always like to say hello to the sea, because no matter what, it will wave back to me."

19. "Smell the sea and feel the sky. Let your soul and spirit fly." — Van Morrison, "Into the Mystic"

20. "All she does is beach, beach, beach."

21. "You and me, and the sea."

22. "The ocean is full of untamed magic."

23. "Go where the WiFi is weak and the waves are strong."

24. "I'll have a side of waves with my morning coffee."

25. "Keep your spirit salty like the waves."

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“Half of me is filled with bursting words and half of me is painfully shy. I crave solitude yet also crave people. I want to pour life and love into everything yet also nurture my self-care and go gently. I want to live within the rush of primal, intuitive decision, yet also wish to sit and contemplate. This is the messiness of life - that we all carry multitudes, so must sit with the shifts. We are complicated creatures, and ultimately, the balance comes from this understanding. Be water. Flowing, flexible and soft. Subtly powerful and open. Wild and serene. Able to accept all changes, yet still led by the pull of steady tides. It is enough.”

― Victoria Erickson

tags: balance, bursting, care, changes, complicated, creatures, flexible, flowing, humans, love, multitudes, open, powerful, pull, serene, shy, silent, solitude, steady, tides, water, waves, wild, words229 likesLike

Alysha Speer

“You never really know what's coming. A small wave, or maybe a big one. All you can really do is hope that when it comes, you can surf over it, instead of drown in its monstrosity.”

― Alysha Speer

tags: adversity, coping, drown, enduring, free, hope, life, live, surf, surfing, trials, water, wave, waves225 likesLike

Santosh Kalwar

“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

tags: happiness, life, ocean, poetry, song, waves210 likesLike

Gustave Flaubert

“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, November

tags: forests, harmony, language, listening, nature, waves, words157 likesLike

Tamora Pierce

“Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life," murmured Niko. "They bring new food for shore creatures, and take ships out to sea. They are the ocean's pulse, and our own heartbeat.”

― Tamora Pierce, Sandry's Book

tags: life, meditation, ocean, pulse, waves93 likesLike

Langston Hughes

“The sea is a desert of waves,

A wilderness of water.”

― Langston Hughes, Selected Poems

tags: ocean, poetry, sea, water, waves, wilderness86 likesLike

Virginia Woolf

“The waves broke and spread their waters swiftly over the shore. One after another they massed themselves and fell; the spray tossed itself back with the energy of their fall. The waves were steeped deep-blue save for a pattern of diamond-pointed light on their backs which rippled as the backs of great horses ripple with muscles as they move. The waves fell; withdrew and fell again, like the thud of a great beast stamping.”

― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

tags: waves81 likesLike

“Some details in life may look insignificant but appear to be vital leitmotifs in a person's life. They may have the value of "Rosebuds" of Citizen Kane or "Madeleine cookies" of Marcel Proust or "Strawberry fields" of the Beatles. People regularly walk down the memory lane of their early youth. The paper boats of their childhood are recurrently floating on the waves of their mind and bring back the mood and the spirit of the early days. They enable us to retreat from the trivial, daily worries and can generate delightful bliss and true joy in a sometimes frantic and chaotic life. ("Paper boats forever" )”

― Erik Pevernagie

tags: bliss, bring-back, chaotic, childhood, citizen-kane, cookies, daily, delightful, details, fields, floating, frantic, insignificant, joy, leitmotif, life, madeleine, marcel-proust, memory-lane, mind, mood, paper-boats, retreat, rosebuds, spirit, strawberry, the-beatles, trivial, value, vital, walk-down, waves, worries, youth64 likesLike

“Through living in a space that we do not understand, everything may become meaningless, incoherent, and forcefully scary. If fear rules our lives, we lose the core of our being, since 'fear' disrupts the schedule of our existence and blocks the soothing waves of the sound vibrations. (“Because the world has corona”)”

― Erik Pevernagie

tags: corona, existence, fear, good-vibrations, incoherent, meaningless, scary, soothing, understand, waves54 likesLike

“The rapture of an ‘innocent moment’ or an “unsuspected instant” can overwhelm us at any time, throughout our lives, and surprise us with a storm of liberating waves of good vibrations.( What do they think behind their dirty aprons?)”

― Erik Pevernagie

tags: apron, good-vibrations, innocent-moment, liberating, overwhelm, rapture, surprise, unsuspected, waves53 likesLike

“A world without dialogue is a universe of darkness. If people don't get together and share views and exchange ideas, they remain unaware, ignorant, and unconscious. As they live in a space that they don't understand, everything becomes meaningless, incoherent, and forcefully scary. If fear rules our lives, we lose the core of our being, since 'fear' is disrupting the schedule of our existence, and blocks the waves of the good vibrations. ("Beware of the neighbor")”

― Erik Pevernagie

tags: beware-of-the-neighbor, darkness, dialogue, exchange-ideas, fear, good-vibrations, ignorant, share-views, unaware, waves51 likesLike

Susan Casey

“[The waves] move across a faint horizon, the rush of love and the surge of grief, the respite of peace and then fear again, the heart that beats and then lies still, the rise and fall and rise and fall of all of it, the incoming and the outgoing, the infinite procession of life. And the ocean wraps the earth, a reminder. The mysteries come forward in waves.”

― Susan Casey, The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean

tags: life, ocean, waves43 likesLike

Joyce Cary

“Nothing like poetry when you lie awake at night. It keeps the old brain limber. It washes away the mud and sand that keeps on blocking up the bends.

Like waves to make the pebbles dance on my old floors. And turn them into rubies and jacinths; or at any rate, good imitations.”

― Joyce Cary, The Horse's Mouth

tags: gulley-jimson, jacinths, mud, pebbles, poetry, rubies, sand, sleepless-nights, waves33 likesLike

Holly Black

“Waves tossed themselves against the shore, dragging grit and sand between their nails as they were slowly pulled back out to sea.”

― Holly Black, Tithe

tags: waves25 likesLike

Munia Khan

“I wish to spend a lifetime near a lighthouse where loneliness will be the glimmer of luminous prancing upon ocean waves… rising and falling only for my breathing.”

― Munia Khan

tags: breath, breathing, glimmer, life, life-quotes, lifetime, lifetime-quote, lifetime-quotes, lighthouse, lighthouse-quotes, lighthouses, loneliness, loneliness-quotes, ocean, ocean-waves, oceanic, prancing, rising, spend, spiritual, spirituality, waves, wish24 likesLike

“Dance with the waves,

move with the sea.

Let the rhythm of the water

set your soul free.”

― Christy Ann Martine

tags: christy-ann-martine, free-spirit, inspirational-quotes, nature-quotes, ocean-quotes, sea, sea-quotes, waves18 likesLike

Emmuska Orczy

“When they are gay, the waves echo their gaiety; but when they are sad, then every breaker, as it rolls, seems to bring additional sadness, and to speak to us of hopelessness and of the pettiness of all our joys.”

― Baroness Orczy

tags: sad, waves13 likesLike

Jeanette Winterson

“...what he told himself on those sea-soaked nights...Others joined in and it was discovered that every light had a story-no, every light was a story. And the flashes themselves were the stories going out over the waves, as markers and guides and comfort and warning.”

― Jeanette Winterson, Lighthousekeeping

tags: guides, light, stories, waves13 likesLike

“Cars they sound like waves that are breaking

On some distant shore

I gazed so hard into the great aching sky

It seemed that I， I wasn’t here no more

That my rushing blood was a river

My eyes two stars

My blowing hair all a quiver

A whispering field of grass

That murmurs as you pass

Oh my darlin’ Kathleen

That whispers out your name

”

― David gray

tags: love, waves9 likesLike

“soulsThat we might break these molds

And free our restless souls

Start to believe

That we can rise above

Our pettiness and love

Like we ain't loved before

Free on this earth

As the surf that rolls

And crashes on the shore

And hey now don't run and hide

Your little heart away

If it's gone

We'll sure never find it

Pining for lost innocence

Tantalisingly I saw

Our shadows moving through the door

Traces from a different time

When I was yours and you were truly mine

All mine”

― David Gray

tags: hearts, love, souls, waves8 likesLike

Jon Kabat-Zinn

“There are always waves on the water. Sometimes they are big, sometimes they are small, and sometimes they are almost imperceptible. The water’s waves are churned up by the winds, which come and go and vary in direction and intensity, just as do the winds of stress and change in our lives, which stir up the waves in our minds.”

― Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

tags: change-of-live, churned-up, meditation, mind, mindfulness, stress, water, waves, wind8 likesLike

Nitya Prakash

“Sometimes she wants to drift away like ocean waves and sometimes she wants to stay still like a river, wrapped in solitude.”

― Nitya Prakash

tags: ocean, solitude, waves, wrapped5 likesLike

Virginia Woolf

“the winds and waves disported themselves like the amorphous bulks of leviathans whose brows are pierced by no light of reason...”

― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

tags: ocean, waves1 likesLike

Khurram Shahzad

“The wet sand on the shore

Feels good to walk on.

The waves lick my feet;

Beg me to return

But I have to wade in--

To have a row with The Sea

.......A lot to explore”

― Khurram Shahzad, Voyager: A Journey to Self and Love

tags: duties, optimism, self, stubbornness, the-sea, walk-on-waves, waves0 likesLike

Arti Manani

“Friendship. There's something earthy about that word but ships belong in the ocean. I guess all you can do is ride the waves and hope a storm doesn't come.”

― Arti Manani, Seven Sins

tags: break-up, friendship, ocean, storm, waves0 likesLike

Mehmet Murat ildan

“We think the journey of the wave ends when it reaches the shore! No, it doesn't! When the wave reaches the shore, it changes something on the shore. When something changes, a new story begins there. This story is also the story of the wave; the journey of the wave continues in another form!”

― Mehmet Murat ildan

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“To all the fish, big or small. May a wave carry you to the top of a tree some day. And from that summit, may you contemplate the immensity of the ocean.”

― Zidrou & Aimée de Jongh, L´onsolescence programmée de nos sentiments

tags: fish, fish-quotes, immense, immensity, ocean, summit, summits, wave, waves0 likesLike

“It just smacks you right in the face. Finally, everything starts to come together and snaps into place. This is not always the most pleasing of experiences, but so necessary to turn the page to the next chapter.

One day, all the pieces of your life's puzzle will come at you like a tidal wave, with the lessons for each following closely behind on the very next wave.

Grab a hold of all the pieces, good or bad. Start putting together all the parts of your personal puzzle. Each piece representing a lesson to be learned and applied to your life. Don't leave a single one behind. This puzzle is different than any other. Make this one a priority to finish. Don't ever get up from this one and leave it incomplete. If you do, the pieces will all fall back in the box, and you will reopen the box over and over again until you do finally decide to put it all together.”

― Christine E. Szymanski

tags: chapter, life, pieces, priority, puzzle, waves0 likesLike

“The Seashell :-

As I stepped into the sea waves ,

I got drifted into our friendship and no longer remembered about going back to the sea shore.

The moment you held my hand in your hand amidst the sea my fear of sinking under it wiped out like that of sand houses on the sea shore under the violent waves and I bathed in your pearly love , my seashell.

Swim with me till those stream lines where there's no trace of the sea shore and I will submerge and breath in them with you as a mermaid till eternity.

©Spriha Kant”

― Spriha Kant

tags: breath, mermaid, pearly, sea-shore, submerged, trace, violent, waves0 likesLike

“Truth is simple yet purposely complex.”

― Wald Wassermann

tags: atomic-theory, bridge, chess, love, ocean, particle-physics, quantum-mechanics, science, thermodynamics, waves

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"The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea."

Vladimir Nabokov

"There is no new wave, only the sea."

Claude Chabrol

"For a surfer, it's never-ending. There's always some wave you want to surf."

Kelly Slater

"I'm surfing the giant life wave."

William Shatner

"Just take your time - wave comes. Let the other guys go, catch another one."

Duke Kahanamoku

"You're not a wave; you're a part of the ocean."

Mitch Albom

"Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles."

John Tyndall

"It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life."

Jeff Bridges

"Waves are the practice of water. To speak of waves apart from water, or water apart from waves is a delusion."

Suzuki Roshi

"A wave isn't like a skate ramp or mountain; everything's moving around, and you have to time how to move along with it. That's easier with a slow wave."

Kelly Slater

"You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf."

Jon Kabat-Zinn

"Home is where the waves are."

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"Sometimes, you just have to go with the waves."

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"Feelings are much like waves: we can't stop them from coming, but we can choose which one to surf."

Jonatan Mårtensson

"Let the waves hit your feet, and the sand be your seat."

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"The waves of the sea help me get back to me."

Jill Davis

"Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life."

Tamora Pierce

"Life's a wave; catch it."

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