Sea

Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers ~ Aristotle

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine. ~ Morris West

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. ~ Harry S. Truman

We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common ~ Buckminster Fuller

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated… ~ Victor E. Frankl

Walking takes longer… Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed. ~ Edward Abbey

The wind shows us how close to the edge we are. ~ Joan Didion

Find what brings you joy and go there. ~ Jan Phillips

The sea hath no king but God alone. ~ Dante Gabriel Rossetti

It’s never too late, in fiction or in life to revise – Nancy Thayer

A lively understandable spirit
Once entertained you
It will come again.
Be still.
Wait.
~ Theodore Roethke

Those who give too much attention to trifling things become generally incapable of great things. ~ La Rouchefouchauld

May I never miss a sunset or rainbow because I am looking down. ~ Sara June Parker

History is full of the shipwrecks of nations and empires; manners, customs, laws, religions–and some fine day that unknown force, the hurricane, passes by and bears them all away. ~ Victor Hugo

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

A heaven so clear, an earth so calm, So sweet, so soft, so hushed an air. ~ Emily Brontë

Hidden in wonder and snow, or sudden with summer, This land stares at the sun in a huge silence Endlessly repeating something we cannot hear. Inarticulate, arctic, Not written on by history, empty as paper, It leans away from the world with songs in its lakes Older than love, and lost in the miles. ~ Francis Reginald Scott

Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. ~ Albert Einstein

The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I’m not alone, I’m free. ~ Lena Horne

The best way to predict the future is to create it. ~ Peter F. Drucker

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road. ~ Dag Hammarskjold

Watching a sunrise, we open ourselves up to the beauty that nature creates, knowing it will never repeat itself just like this again. ~ Jake Rajs

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country. ~ Anais Nin

Make the most of every failure

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

The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it. ~ Elizabeth Gaskell

A woman’s heart is a deep ocean of secrets. ~ Gloria Stuart

Someday the sun is going to shine down on me in some faraway place ~ Mahalia Jackson

Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality. ~ Andy Goldsworthy

Isn’t it funny that at Christmas something in you gets so lonely for – I don’t know what exactly, but it’s something that you don’t mind so much not having at other times. ~Kate L. Bosher

If I have seen further, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants. ~ Sir Isaac Newton

One of the strongest motives that lead persons to art or science is a flight from the everyday life… ~ Albert Einstein

Summer gathers up her robes of glory, and like a dream of beauty glides away. ~ Sarah Helen Power Whitman

Each morning the day lies like a fresh shirt on our bed; this incomparably fine, incomparably tightly woven tissue of pure prediction fits us perfectly. The happiness of the next twenty-four hours depends on our ability, on waking, to pick it up. ~ Walter Benjamin

Summer is the time when one sheds one’s tensions with one’s clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all’s right with the world. — Ada Louise Huxtable

One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on the edge of space ~ Rachel Carson

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives ~ Henry David Thoreau

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind ~ Seneca

We all have within us a center of stillness surrounded by silence. ~ Dag Hammarskjold

And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. ~ Adlai E. Stevenson

Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do on a rainy Sunday afternoon. – Susan Ertz

Live out of your imagination, not your history ~ Steven Covey

I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing. ~ Annie Dillard

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

maggie and millie and molly and may
went down to the beach (to play one day)

and maggie discovered a shell that sang
so sweetly she couldn’t remember her troubles,and

millie befriended a stranded star
who’s rays five languid fingers were;

and molly was chased by a horrible thing
which raced sideways while blowing bubbles:and

may came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me)
it’s always ourselves we find in the sea.”

e e cummings