My life is like a stroll upon the beach,
As near the ocean's edge as I can go.
- Henry David Thoreau, The Fisher's Boy

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me)
it's always ourselves we find in the sea. - e.e. cummings

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

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me. - Isaac Newton

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me. - Albert Schweitzer

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear. - Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean. - David Searls

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship. - Louisa May Alcott

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm is terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore. - Vincent van Gogh

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach; one can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

I could never stay long enough on the shore, the tang of the untainted, fresh and free sea air was like a cool, quieting thought. - Helen Keller

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever. - Jacques Cousteau

The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace. - Kate Chopin

In every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth. - Rachel Carson

The sum total of all that lives is God. We may not be God, but we are of God, even as a little drop of water is of the ocean. - Mohandas Gandhi

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in an ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. - Mother Teresa

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes. - Rabindranath Tagore

Today is a smooth white seashell, hold it close and listen to the beauty of the hours. - unknown

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain

You rule over the surging sea; when its waves mount up, you still them. - Psalm 89:9

God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants His footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm. - William Cowper

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Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

If I ride the wings of the morning, if I dwell by the farthest oceans,
even there your hand will guide me, and your strength will support me. - Psalm 139: 9-10

But when our time was up, we left and continued on our way. All the disciples and their wives and children accompanied us out of the city, and there on the beach we knelt to pray. - Acts 21:5

There's a wideness in God's mercy like the wideness of the sea. - Frederick William Faber

May the river of my life flow into the sea of love that is the Lord. - Rig Veda (sacred Hindu scripture)

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. - Sri Sathya Sai Baba

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