Isaac Newton
Mathematician, Physicist, Astronomer
"What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean."
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Lil Wayne
Rapper, Musician
"I am probably in the sky, flying with the fish, or maybe in the ocean, swimming with the pigeons. See, my world is different."
Muhammad Iqbal
Poet, Philosopher
"Be aware of your own worth, use all of your power to achieve it. Create an ocean from a dewdrop. Do not beg for light from the moon, obtain it from the spark within you."
Saint Francis de Sales
Saint, Bishop
"What we need is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience."
Van Morrison
Singer-Songwriter
"Smell the sea and feel the sky."
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"The voice of the sea speaks to the soul."
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"I know not how I seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with while the vast ocean of undiscovered truth lay before me."
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"Oh, my God. What if you wake up some day, and you're 65 or 75, and you never got your novel or memoir written; or you didn't go swimming in warm pools or oceans because your thighs were jiggly or you had a nice big comfortable tummy; or you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life, of imagination and radical silliness and staring off into space like when you were a kid? It's going to break your heart. Don't let this happen."
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"We never know the worth of water till the well is dry."
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"Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think."
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"You have no idea how hard I've looked for a gift to bring You. Nothing seemed right. What's the point of bringing gold to the gold mine, or water to the ocean. Everything I came up with was like taking spices to the Orient. It's no good giving my heart and my soul because you already have these. So I've brought you a mirror. Look at yourself and remember me."
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"If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work; teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean."
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"The magnetic needle always points to the north, and hence it is that sailing vessel does not lose her direction. So long as the heart of man is directed towards God, he cannot be lost in the ocean of worldliness."
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"Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean."
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"Together we can face any challenges as deep as the ocean and as high as the sky."
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"An ocean of bliss may rain down from the heavens, but if you hold up only a thimble, that is all you receive"
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"I want that love that moved the mountains. I want that love that split the ocean. I want that love that made the winds tremble. I want that love that roared like thunder. I want that love that will raise the dead. I want that love that lifts us to ecstasy. I want that love that is the silence of eternity."
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"My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea"
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"The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction."
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"The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace."
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"Claiming there is no other life in the universe is like scooping up some water, looking at the cup and claiming there are no whales in the ocean."
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"Absorbed in this world, you've made it your burden. Rise above this world. There is another vision. All your life you've paid attention to your experiences, but never to your Self. Are you searching for your Soul? Then come out of your prision. Leave the stream and join the river that flows into the Ocean. It will not lead you astray. Let the beauty you seek be what you do."
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"How much deeper would the ocean be if sponges didn’t live there?"
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"Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?" That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future."
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"We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came."
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