The Ocean Quotes

We all end in the ocean. We all start in the streams. We're all carried along, by the river of dreams.

Life on this earth first emerged from the sea. As the polar ice melts and sea level rises, we humans find ourselves facing the prospect that once again we may quite literally become ocean.

It is never too late to go quietly to our lakes, rivers, oceans, even our small streams, and say to the sea gulls, the great blue herons, the bald eagles, the salmon, that we are sorry.

Into the ocean went a world more fantastic than any imagination could inspire.

The ocean is a supreme metaphor for change. I expect the unexpected but am never fully prepared.

I am no longer the wave of consciousness thinking itself separated from the sea of cosmic consciousness. I am the ocean of Spirit that has become the wave of human life.

Protect the ocean and you protect yourself.

Neither in the sky nor in mid-ocean, nor by entering into mountain clefts, nowhere in the world is there a place where one may escape from the results of evil deeds.

As the river surrenders itself to the ocean, what is inside me moves inside you.

There is a gyre of discarded floating plastic the size of the continental USA in the ocean. In it, plastic trash outweighs plankton 40 to 1.

Can ye fathom the ocean, dark and deep, where the mighty waves and the grandeur sweep?

If I could reach from pole to pole or grasp the ocean with a span, I would be measured by the soul The mind's the standard of the Man.

I'll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry And the seven stars go squawking Like geese about the sky.

Haters are a drop in the ocean. Theres that much more love

Ever since I was a child I've always been very attracted to melodies. Whether I hear Jeff Beck, a choir, an ocean or the wind, there's always a melody in there.

One drop of eternity is of greater weight than a vast ocean of finite things.

Where else can you be as free as by yourself in the middle of nowhere, or in the middle of the ocean, or on the peak of a mountain. Adventure is freedom.

You're my bread when I'm hungry You're my shelter from troubled winds You're my anchor in life's ocean Most of all You're my best friend

Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.

The dance of the palm trees, the oceans calling, the first rays of sun and heaven is here.

Thoughts are like drops of water: with our thoughts we can drown in a sea of negativity, or we can float on the ocean of life.

Just as every drop of the ocean carries the taste of the ocean, so does every moment carry the taste of eternity.

Without water drops, there can be no oceans; without steps, there can be no stairs; without little things, there can be no big things!

Rest in natural great peace, this exhausted mind, beaten helpless by karma and neurotic thought, like the relentless fury of the pounding waves in the infinite ocean of samsara.

What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.

Do not let one moment go by that doesn’t remind you that your heart beats 900 times a day, and there are enough gallons of blood to make everyone of you oceans

It is hoped that by God's assistance, some of the continents in the Ocean will be discovered ... for the Glory of God.

Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.

I don't know how much movies should entertain. To me I'm always interested in movies that scar. The thing I love about JAWS is that I've never gone swimming in the ocean again.

A hermitage in the forest is the refuge of the narrow-minded misanthrope; a hammock on the ocean is the asylum for the generous distressed.

Mary means Star of the sea, for as mariners are guided to port by the ocean star, so Christians attain to glory through Mary's maternal intercession.

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.

You are not just the drop in the ocean. You are the mighty ocean in the drop.

The world is not a solid continent of facts sprinkled by a few lakes of uncertainties, but a vast ocean of uncertainties speckled by a few islands of calibrated and stabilized forms

Without the land, the rivers, the oceans, the forests, the sunshine, the minerals and thousands of natural resources we would have no economy whatsoever

I am you; you are ME. You are the waves; I am the ocean. Know this and be free, be divine.

When I sit near the ocean in the morning and write my verses and breathe the salty wind which is coming from the water, I rejoice in God and I am blissful, as I was as a child.

Can you imagine what it would feel like to become aware of an omnipresent ocean of wild divine love that has always been a secret to you in the same way that the sea is invisible to a fish?

A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.

I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.

Listen, O drop, give yourself up without regret, and in exchange gain the Ocean.

Love turns man into an ocean of happiness, an image of peace, a temple of wisdom. Love is every man's very Self, his true beauty, and the glory of his human existence.

The ocean, after all, is not about stability but about change. Change is normal. Everything changes. All the time.

Greatness exists like an ocean within you. Why do you want to act like a fish out of water, wriggling on the sand under the scorching sun? Look! The water is just one millimeter away! Jump in!

Looking at a cat, like looking at clouds or stars or the ocean, makes it difficult to believe there is nothing miraculous in this world.

I will sleep no more but arise, You oceans that have been calm within me! how I feel you, fathomless, stirring, preparing unprecedented waves and storms.

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.

You must have an iron will, if you would cross the ocean. You must be strong enough to pierce mountains.

If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day.

After creating the heaven, the earth, the ocean, and the entire animal kingdom, God created Adam and Eve. And the first thing He said to them was "Don't."