Supernatural Existence

 Why do we love the sea? It is because it 

has some potent power to make us think

things we like to think. ~Robert Henri

The sea is only the embodiment of a

supernatural and wonderful existence. ~Jules Verne

Timing is Everything

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but 

about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself 

not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do. ~Pope John XXIII

I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything. ~Dan Millman

Castles in the Air

Now I see the secret of making the best

person: it is to grow in the open air and to

eat and sleep with the earth. ~Walt Whitman

Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. ~Henry David Thoreau

Murmuring Waves

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color

of the waves that break upon the idle

seashore of the mind. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We can speak without voice to the trees 

and the clouds and the waves of the sea.

Without words they respond through the

rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds

and the murmuring of the sea. ~Paul Tillich

Crossing the Sea

You can't cross the sea by standing and

staring at the water. ~Rabindranath Tagore

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul. ~Victor Hugo

Walking in Silence

The moment one gives close attention to

anything, even a blade of grass it becomes

mysterious, awesome, indescribably

magnificent world in itself ~Henry Miller

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in 

noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, 

how they move in silence... 

We need silence to be able to touch souls. ~Mother Teresa

Soaring Free

 The desire to fly is an idea handed down to

us by our ancestors who... looked enviously

on the birds soaring freely through space...

on the infinite highway of the air. ~Wilbur Wright

  

Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of

harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped

only in its wings will we ever soar to the

promise of our greater selves. ~Bryant H. McGill

Sparkling Shores

The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness. ~James Gates Percival

Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore. ~Lord Byron

Fishing Trip

Many men go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~Henry David Thoreau

Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are

deeper than the ordinary self. ~Ted Hughes

Solitary Contemplation

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life

stimulates the creative mind. ~Albert Einstein

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is 

either a wild beast or a god. ~Aristotle

From the Waves

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, 

so do our minutes, hasten to their end. ~William Shakespeare

When you grow up by the sea, you spend a good 

deal of time looking at the horizon. You wonder 

what on Earth the waves might bring - and where the sea might deposit you - until one day you know you have lived between two places, the scene of arrival and the point of departure. ~Andrew O'Hagan

Hidden Truth

 Some people think that the truth can be

hidden with a little cover-up and decoration.

But as time goes by, what is true is revealed,

and what is fake fades away. ~Ismail Haniyeh

The human heart has hidden treasures, 

In secret kept, in silence sealed;

The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, 

Whose charms were broken if revealed. ~Charlotte Bronte

Grain of Sand

To see a world in a grain of sand 

And heaven in a wildflower:

Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,

And eternity in an hour. ~William Blake

The golden moments in the stream of life

rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; 

the angels come to visit us, and we only know

them when they are gone. ~George Eliot

Collecting Life

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one

track of light; every eye, looking on, 

finds its own. ~Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Like a shipwreck or a jetty, almost anything that forms a structure in the ocean, whether it is natural or artificial over time, collects life. ~Sylvia Earle

Upon the Sand

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. ~Blaise Pascal

The one characteristic of authentic power that most people overlook is humbleness. It is important for many reasons. A humble person walks in a friendly world. He or she sees friends everywhere he or she looks, wherever he or she goes, whomever he or she meets. His or her perception goes beyond 

the shell of appearance and into essence.~Gary Zukav

Memory Flight

'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to

others that we know not of. ~William Shakespeare

I shall go the way of the open sea, to the

lands I knew before you came, and the cool

ocean breeze shall blow from me the memory

of your name. ~Adela Florence Nicolson

Luminous Tides

Sunrise offered a very beautiful spectacle; the water was quite unruffled, but the motion communicated by the tides was so great that, although there was 

not a breath of air stirring, the sea heaved slowly with a grand and majestic motion. ~George Grey

At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. 

It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding. ~Norman Maclean