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Keep swimming.
Mark Cunningham
If there is magic on this planet,
it is contained in water.
Loren Eiseley
I do not want to waste my words
on tired minds.
I can only talk to those who are thirsty
for the sea.
Rumi
You didn't come into this world.
You came out of it,
like a wave from the ocean.
You are not a stranger here.
Alan Watts
In living, we trace a wake in the world.
Gabriel Rockhill
With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take,
you're connected to the sea.
No matter where on Earth you live.
Sylvia Earle
The most valuable thing we extract from the oceans
is our existence.
Sylvia Earle
To surf is to live exultantly,
to venture confidently into the wider world,
to celebrate the connectedness of all things.
Fiona Capp
Water expresses itself in a variety of ways.
Masaru Emoto
Cleansing the mind does not require water.
Practicing generosity does not require wealth.
Sam van Schaik
I think when a surfer becomes a surfer,
it's almost like an obligation to be an environmentalist at the same time.
Kelly Slater
For whatever we lose (like a you or a me)
it is always ourselves we find in the sea.
E.E.Cummings
We are like islands in the sea,
separate on the surface
but connected in the deep.
William James
You can't stop the waves,
but you can learn to surf.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
What happens in the oceans, happens to us.
Fabien Cousteau
We are like sailors
who on the open sea
must reconstruct their ship
but are never able to start afresh from the bottom.
Otto Neurath
How inappropriate to call this planet Earth
when it is quite clearly Ocean.
Arthur C. Clarke
The world is large,
but in us it is as deep as the sea.
Rainer Maria Rilke
The ocean is the last free place on Earth.
Patri Friedman
The biggest sin in the world
would be if I lost my love for the ocean.
Laird Hamilton
Immersed in the waters of Life,
surf the wave of time
with courage and joy.
Grant van der Vijver
It is life, I think, to watch the water.
A man can learn so many things.
Nicholas Sparks
You are not a drop in the ocean.
You are the entire ocean in a drop.
Rumi
Outside of water,
I am nothing.
Duke Kahanamoku
Tell me, have you used your knowledge
to pull men out of the water or to drown them?
Henri Charrie'ere
Believe me when I say:
There are two powers
that command the soul.
One is God.
The other is the tide.
Clive Barker
Smooth seas do not make skilful sailors.
African proverb
The sagely person is like water.
Water benefits all things and does not compete with them.
Lao Tsu
In water, everything is "dissolved".
Mircea Eliade
Mother I never knew
Every time I see the ocean
Every time.
Basho
The idea is that running water never grows stale.
So you've got to keep on flowing.
Bruce Lee
Life originated in the sea, and about eighty percent of it is still there.
Isaac Asimov
I can assure you no whales are going to be killed today.
Paul Watson
A sailor's geography is not always the same as that of the cartographer,
for whom a cape is a cape, with a latitude and a longitude.
For the sailor, a great cape is both a very simple and an extremely complicated whole
of rocks, currents, breaking seas and huge waves, fair winds and gales, joys and fears, fatigue, dreams,
painful hands, empty stomachs, wonderful moments, and suffering at times.
Bernard Moitessier
In the abundance of water
the fool is thirsty.
Bob Marley
Life, love and the sea:
All constantly call us to be
out of our depth.
Grant van der Vijver
We are alive because the ocean is alive.
Living Sea documentary
Water is the driving force in nature.
Leonardo Da Vinci
The sea has never been friendly to man.
At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
Joseph Conrad
The sea does not reward those
who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient.
One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
If I were called in to construct a religion I should make use of water.
Philip Larkin
To become the energy of the wave, that's the main idea.
You take when the water gives, and you give when the water takes.
It's a constant interplay of bold confrontations and mellow respect.
Bill Hamilton
Water is life. ...to be flowing, powerful, profound, unafraid, balanced,
nourishing, still, and pure - one who follows Tao need only emulate water in every way.
Den Ming-Dao, Everyday Tao
Life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
Khalil Gibran
You must live in the present,
launch yourself on every wave,
find your eternity in each moment.
Thoreau
The Upholder of the Cycles which supports the whole of Life, is Water.
In every drop of water dwells the Godhead, whom we all serve;
there also dwells Life, the Soul of the "First" substance - Water...
Viktor Schauberger
It's always our self we find in the sea.
E.E. Cummings
Like the sea, we are always in motion. The waves loom in our dreams and in our nightmares
through all of time, their rhythms pulsing through us.
They 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 infinite procession of life. The mysteries come forward in waves.
Susan Casey, The Wave
The cure for anything is salt water:
sweat, tears or the sea.
Isak Dinesen
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 further up the shore.
Cyril Conelly
The true eye of the earth is water.
It is the gaze of the earth, it's instrument for looking at time.
In our eyes, it is water that dreams.
Paul Claudel
And we made from water every living thing.
The Quran
I am restless. I thirst for faraway things.
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
Rabindranath Tagore
We are able to think because our brains are afloat on water's buoyancy.
Theodor Schwenk
All that we do is touched with ocean,
yet we remain on the shore of what we know.
Richard Wilbur
The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible,
but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore.
Anon
The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.
Vladimir Nabokov
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water.
Bruce Lee
The highest good is like water.
Water gives life to the ten thousand things and does not strive.
It flows in places men reject and so is like the Tao.
Tao Te Ching
You cannot step into the same river twice;
for fresh waters are ever flowing in upon you.
Heraclitus
To get the best stuff you have to be out of your depth.
It's when you're drowning that you really learn.
Bono
Dive deep oh mind,
Into the ocean of divine beauty.
You will discover a new gem,
Instant after instant.
Yogic epigram
I submerge, open my eyes, and dream.
Wolfgang Leander
When you put your hand into a flowing stream,
you touch the last that has gone before
and the first of what is still to come.
Leonardo Da Vinci
To have faith is to trust yourself to the water.
...relax and float
Alan Watts
Scientists must be made to realize that water is not something to be handled carelessly,
like an inanimate object. Water is not merely H2O, but a living organism
with its own laws commanding respect from mankind, if the consequences are not to be fatal.
Viktor Schauberger
I need the sea because it teaches me
Pablo Neruda