Quotes about waves

Hanna Rosin -

Ever since viewing screens entered the home, many observers have worried that they put our brains into a stupor. An early strain of research claimed that when we watch television, our brains mostly exhibit slow alpha waves - indicating a low level of arousal, similar to when we are daydreaming.

Danny Meyer -

Life is a series of waves to be embraced and overcome.

Guy Pearce -

Success comes in waves.

Josiah Royce -

The lonely wanderer, who watches by the seashore the waves that roll between him and his home, talks of cruel facts, material barriers that, just because they are material, and not ideal, shall be the irresistible foes of his longing heart.

Steve Maraboli -

You are the ocean everything else is just waves and wind.

Thomas Moore -

Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.

Anthony T. Hincks -

When we walk along the beach and feel the sand beneath our toes and then the surf sends small waves to gently caress our feet then we smell the saltiness upon the wind that is when we know that we have come home from whence we came.

Nina Jean Slack - Forever Found

I had never been in love with anyone before in my life, but I knew the feeling when it came bursting into my soul, like a million butterflies swirling around inside of me, like a tidal wave crashing into the shore that was my heart, flooding it completely and wiping out everything in it's path...” - Nina Jean Slack, Once Lost, Forever Found (Vol. #1)

Jonatan Mårtensson -

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

Jeffrey R. Anderson - The Nature of Things - Navigating Everyday Life with Grace

The wave is the signature of every experience of life. By understanding the nature of waves and their characteristics, and applying that understanding to our lives, we can navigate life with a little more grace.

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.

Debasish Mridha -

Let us be the waves of love and let it wash the universe.

Akshay Vasu -

Speaking with her always felt like sitting on a seashore. Hearing the waves and feeling them crashing into my feet, While gazing the setting sun and the way he colours the whole sky. I never got tired of it.

Sanober Khan -

the mostbeautiful tideis the sweepof your heartagainst mine.

Munia Khan -

Wild waves rise and fall when they arrive And that’s what makes the calm sea alive

M. L. Stedman - The Light Between Oceans -

There are times when the ocean is not the ocean-not blue, not even water, but some violent explosion of energy and danger: ferocity on a scale only gods can summon. It hurls itself at the island, sending spray right over the top of the lighthouse, biting pieces off the cliff. And the sound is a roaring of a beast whose anger knows no limits. Those are the nights the light is needed most.

Kendall Kulper - Salt & Storm

The sky would be clear, colorless, mist blending together the air and the ocean, the waves whispering against the rocks.

Diana Matoso -

Life is an ocean and waves are our paths.

Nityananda Das - Divine Union

The waves hit the cliff with more intensity than the shore, because the ocean knows the cliff has that masculine intensity which won’t complain about her feminine energy.

Katherine McIntyre - By the Sea

The tides rolled up to crash against the shore while we sat feet from one another with the remnants of all we’d left unsaid driving us apart.

Sagar Gosavi -

Wait, the most positive and infinite word ever made. It can be for a moment,for a min,for an hour,for days, for years, for eternity ...and sometimes for another life .. But it never fails and never ends.One always waits for something or someone ... I am not a time which can not be stopped,Whenever you will want me .. I will be there !!!And this best explains the relation between a Wave and the Shore.

Oliver Gaspirtz -

Life is like the ocean. You can either be the ball floating on the waves, or make your own waves.

Celia McMahon - Skye

When I go to describe something as remarkable as what I saw that day, I could only say it was a place of dreams. The water is crystalline clear, a mixture of opalescent colors and frosted with white tips. It surges forward and crashes up against the rocks below us as the sun cast a fire-like glare in the distance. Adding to my reverie is the salty smell in the air that lingers and enlivens senses that seem to have been dormant before this moment. I don't recall moving in this dream-like state bu

Susan Casey - and Giants of the Ocean

[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.

Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse

so that the monotonous fall of the waves on the beach, which for the most part beat a measured and soothing tattoo to her thoughts seemed consolingly to repeat over and over again...

Mehmet Murat ildan -

When you sit tranquilly, you set a great example to the people who rush around in panic and thus you show the crazy waves the beauty of being a calm lake!

Sameh Elsayed -

When the fisherman bait the hooks, through them into the sea and sits looking at horizon, do not think he is doing nothing. He and all his senses are fully tensed. His eyes monitors the line, his ears picks the slightest sound of the rod, his heart beats in harmony with the waves and his mind plans further than you think

Kate McGahan -

Love is like the sea. The waves of life, they ebb and flow; they come and go. Time sweeps us away from each other. Love always brings us back.

James A. Murphy - The Waves of Life Quotes and Daily Meditations

As the tides of life rise and fall, life is constant, like the waves crashing upon the shore. Persistence is the key in high and low times…

Mehmet Murat ildan -

Every lighthouse knows that when the giant waves come, no one will help! And when you know that no one will help you, you fight more seriously!

Lindsay Chamberlin - The Shoreline

It was any wonder how a wave could withstand such a look from eyes like that and continue to build towards him. His eyes were her ocean in those brief seconds.

Langston Hughes - Selected Poems

The sea is a desert of waves,A wilderness of water.

Anthony Liccione -

People are like water: Many rush pass you, as some will over-flood. Some will drown you, or force you to go their current ways. Some will be cold or hot-tempered, but try to say with the warm ones. Some will come as a raging wave and cause a ripple, or a calm sea, supporting you, quenching your thirst, and flow by your side to where kisses will always stay wet.

David Mitchell - Cloud Atlas

At dawn the waves looked like mountain ranges tipped with gold as sunbeams slanted low under burgundy clouds.

Marina Keegan - The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

They try to fight the waves, but they can’t fight the moon. They can’t fight the world’s rotation or the bathymetry of oceans or the inevitability that sometimes things just don’t work out.

Jasleen Kaur Gumber -

Dear Waves,You have been restless all your life? Or maybe uneasy? I don't know quite. Oscillating between faiths, swinging between shores!Yet when we sit next to you on those sands, do you never feel like sharing what bothers you so much?

April Mae Monterrosa -

Today was about chasing sun-rays, beach waves, & sunsets. All things beautiful that give you peace are worth chasing. Everything else isn't.

Tina Louise -

Mental communication without verbalization... all space is made up of waves and we are constantly sending and receiving messages from our brain.

Norman Vincent Peale -

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

Edward Gibbon -

The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Pavitraa Parthasarathy -

Waves don't think, plan and prepare to better their rise after every fall. They are pristine as they are.

Mike May -

I love the sounds and the power of pounding water, whether it is the waves or a waterfall.

Amy Purdy -

I love the smell of rain, and I love the sound of the ocean waves.

Lindsey Vonn -

When I first moved to Vail, it was like I was a little celebrity. You know, everyone knew my accomplishments. I was a young, fast teenager and making waves in the ski world. And it was really cool.

shivangi lavaniya -

and nothing can be more captivating than the waves hitting the shore

Beth Revis - The Body Electric

We keep sending colonies up into space,” Akilah says, “and we don’t even know what’s at the bottom of the sea.”“Yeah, we do,” I counter. “Fish and stuff.”Akilah laughs. “We’ve barely explored the sea. There are places where the water is so deep that it has never seen light.” She sighs. “I would like to go to those places. I would like to sink down and down and down and see what’s hidden at the bottom.”The sea is a dangerous place because it makes you believe in forever. I stare back at the shore

Dorothy Parker - The Portable Dorothy Parker

This level reach of blue is not my sea; Here are sweet waters, pretty in the sun,Whose quiet ripples meet obediently A marked and measured line, one after one. This is no sea of mine. that humbly laves Untroubled sands, spread glittering and warm. I have a need of wilder, crueler waves; They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm. So let a love beat over me again, Loosing its million desperate breakers wide; Sudden and terrible to rise and wane; Roaring the heavens apart; a reckless tide That ca

Doug Cooper - Outside In

The waves splash against my face, carrying a message: Welcome, you belong here.

Avijeet Das -

She day-dreams just as I do. She is addicted to her solitude just as I am. She loves watching the rain-drops fall slowly on to the green leaves of an old guava tree just as I do. She loves drifting in time and time travel just as I do. She loves looking at the waves dashing against the rocks just as I do.

El Fuego -

Take me to unexplored paradise & one of your best islands, I want to cross the pacific ocean and make a great memory. Let's go to the eastern coast of the Philippines where the waves meet the sky. You know where it is!

Jennifer Harrison - Write like no one is reading 2

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.

John Mark Green -

As the waves relentlessly seek the shore, so my thoughts continually return to you.

Rajnar Vajra - 2013 January/February

She figured that the main problem in physics is physicists, that most of them are caught in a mind trap because they're so used to things being made of smaller things. So they instinctively believe that reality, at its most basic level, must be made up of and regulated by almost infinitely small elementary particles.

Girdhar Joshi - Some Mistakes Have No Pardon

We all are bundles of electric waves or streams of particles – proton, neutron, and electrons. If a piece of metal can be transformed into electric or magnetic waves, so can a string of sound, a thought, and a desire.

Alice Hoffman - The River King

He had appeared beside her because she had wanted him to. She had called him to her, and was calling him still. Even when she fell asleep, she dreamed of water, as if the world were topsy-turvy and everything she cared about had been lost in the deep. She plunged through the green waves with her eyes wide open, searching for the world as she'd known it, but that world no longer existed; everything that had once been solid was liquid now, and the birds swam alongside the fish.

Swami Sivananda -

Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.

William Shakespeare -

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.

Martin Rees -

Everything, however complicated - breaking waves, migrating birds, and tropical forests - is made of atoms and obeys the equations of quantum physics. But even if those equations could be solved, they wouldn't offer the enlightenment that scientists seek. Each science has its own autonomous concepts and laws.

Santigold -

I feel like good music comes and goes in waves.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo -

Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day one should meditate on being carried away by surging waves, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease.

Shannon L. Alder -

True love is the tide that pulls out to sea, but always returns to kiss the shore at sunrise.

Akshay Vasu -

She was sitting in a dark room, curled up and her head buried on her knees. His name echoing in her mind, like a thunder over a seashore. She was torn between the happiness brought by the waves, that touched her feet and fear of losing herself in the chaos. created by the sound that shattered her whole world into pieces.

Terry Tempest Williams - When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

If so, then it was also here where I came to know I can survive what hurts. I believed in my capacity to stand back up and run into the waves again and again, no matter the risk.

Amy Neftzger - War of Words

Time is the wave upon the shore. It takes some things away, but it brings other things.

Gustave Flaubert - November

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.

Mladen Đorđević - Svetioničar - Vesnici oluje

It's not worth it to build castles on the sand if they get destroyed by the waves of reality.

Fernweher -

You’re throwing stonesacross my waterbut my inner sea stay calm,whatever happens.The peaceful sound of the moving watermakes everything fade . . .and if waves will growit will be just to wash everything away.A clean surface will rise, sand returns white.My heart is see-throughwith brand new intentions.I'm floating with no reason, and I'm so fucking good baby.And he softly whispered: Too many tides will destroy your beautybut it's not your fault, it's the moon to blame.

Keri Hulme - The Bone People

Sometimes, the waves grow hushed, but the sea is always there, touching, caressing, eating the earth...

Sophia McMaster - The Last Companion: A conversation between Death and the last man on earth

Even nature; the restless waves, irregular trees and stars all out of line show that chaos can be beautiful!

D.J. MacLennan - Frozen to Life: A Personal Mortality Experiment

Your name may be 'writ in water', but for now, you have the great advantage of being a wave that can think.

Sushil Singh - System dynamics: a practical approach for managerial problems

god is similar to the relation of the water of ocean to the waves of the ocean the sole Reality of the waves is the Water.

Darren Shan - Bec

Though I’m tempted by the call of the sea, I resist. It can’t claim me.In a way I’m stronger than the waves and I feel good about that.

Annie Johnson Flint -

Deep the waves may be and cold, But Jehovah is our refuge, And His promise is our hold; For the Lord Himself hath said it, He, the faithful God and true: "When thou comest to the waters Thou shalt not go down, BUT THROUGH." Seas of sorrow, seas of trial, Bitterest anguish, fiercest pain, Rolling surges of temptation Sweeping over heart and brain They shall never overflow us For we know His word is true; All His waves and all His billows He will lead us safely through. Threatening breakers of des

Jonathan Kellerman - Time Bomb

At first, when a child meets something that scares him, the fear grows, like a wave. But when he goes into the water and swims - gets used to the water - the wave grows small. If we pull the child away when the wave is high, he never sees that, never learns how to swim and remains afraid. If he gets a chance to feel strong, in control, that's called coping. When he copes, he feels better.

Virginia Alison -

Woman cannot survive on droplets, she requires waves to regularly crash over her shores as the moon gives way to the sun...

James Rozoff -

Once you realize that life and love are not things you can possess but forces that emanate through us and through all creation, then you can begin to appreciate the miracle you are a part of. You can release the burden and appreciate what you have had, have now and will have. Only trying to hold on to what you do not have causes pain. Letting go permits you to experience the incredible joy that comes to you at each and every moment.

Joyce Cary - The Horse's Mouth

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.

Jasleen Kaur Gumber -

One day, all your worries will set like the sun does and deserved happiness will come gushing like waves at the beach do. All you need to make sure is that your trips to beach never end.

Dianna Hardy - Rise Of The Wolf

Grief came in waves, sometimes big, sometimes small, but even on the calmest days, the grief remained. The tide still came ashore.

Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse

Gently the waves would break (Lily heard them in her sleep); tenderly the light fell (it seemed to come through her eyelids). And it all looked, Mr. Carmichael thought, shutting his book, falling asleep, much as it used to look years ago.

Doppo Kunikida - Five Stories

He was beneath the waves, a creature crawling the ocean bottom.

Rachel Van Dyken - Toxic

Watching someone you love… die? There are no words for how broken that makes a person. It’s like waking up from a bad dream only to find out that it’s you reality, it’s like watching sunlight fade from the sky, like watching death suck the one you love dry, and being powerless to stop it. You may as well try to stop the waves from rolling in, or the sun from rising.In the end, the waves will roll, the sun will set, and death will come. The only thing you have a choice in? How you deal with it…wh

Ava Dellaira - Love Letters to the Dead

I know I could have saved your ashes to put into the ocean, but I wanted you to have the journey, all the way with the currents, to the open sea. And I know that when I finally get to see the waves washing on the shore, to hear them, I will feel you there.

Jaimal Yogis - Saltwater Buddha: A Surfer's Quest to Find Zen on the Sea

But I looked out at the waves far below the bluff. They looked violent, erupting against the cliff. I watched them rising - up, up, higher, higher - then falling, crashing, swirling into chaos, passing away. I breathed deeply. I tried to breathe space between my thoughts, find the space between the anger.

Alan McCluskey - The Reaches

Silence is the door to Oran Mor. Close your eyes. Quieten your thoughts. And listen. Listen in particular to the sound of the waves. Let the Great Song sing in you. In an hour I will ring a bell. When you hear it, make a sound that resonates with the waves. Let it flow and develop, calling on all you have heard in the silence.

Rue - An Average Curse

The only thing you must do, flesh-child, is die. The rest is but a trick of light in the foam on the waves.

Akshay Vasu -

The day you forgive your past and close your eyes. You will hear a river flowing inside you again. You will hear that waves of the ocean hitting the seashores of your soul once again. And again the sun will shine, lighting up your darkest nights.

Shelley Noble - Beach Colors

Margaux was older and wiser now and knew the waves couldn't fix what was wrong in her life, but at least they might give her some temporary respite.

Tamora Pierce - Sandry's Book

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.

Margarita Engle - The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom

The child tells me her grandmothershowed her how to cure sadness by sucking the juice of an orange, while standing on a beach.Toss the peels onto a wave.Watch the sadness float away.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

The inner peace can block any windy weather.

Dada Bhagwan -

Don’t some people say, ‘You did not value me’? What value did you have at all? Go ask the ocean, ‘what is my worth?’ You will be swept away with one wave. The owner of many waves has swept away many a people like you! Worth is in those people who have no attachment-abhorrence.

Colleen Hoover - It Ends with Us

Imagine all the people you meet in your life. There are so many. They come in like waves, trickling in and out with the tide. Some waves are much bigger and make more of an impact than others. Sometimes the waves bring with them things from deep in the bottom of the sea and they leave those things tossed onto the shore. Imprints against the grains of sand that prove the waves had once been there, long after the tide recedes.That was what Atlas was telling me when he said “I love you.” He was let

Carlo Rovelli - La realtà non è come ci appare: La struttura elementare delle cose

The atoms of our body, as well, flow in and away from us. We, like waves and like all objects, are a flux of events; we are processes, for a brief time monotonous

Jasleen Kaur Gumber -

One day, all your worries will set like the sun does and deserved happiness will come gushing like waves at the beach do. All you need to make sure id that your trips to beach never end.

Munia Khan -

Souls of love breathlessly sailTowards our time when hours failTo cope with longing here we areChasing the speed of a falling starMiles and miles fleetly we goDown to the ocean, deeper the flowWaves now know their crushing tide Splashing between joy and pride

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.

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.

Charbel Tadros -

The universe is an ocean upon which we are the waves. While some decide to surf, others venture to dive.

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