"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."

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow | Patience | 2 bookmarks

"Praise the sea; on shore remain."

Florio, John | Oceans | 1 bookmarks

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

Gandhi, Mahatma | Humankind | 5 bookmarks

"We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in the ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. I do not agree with the big way of doing things."

Mother Teresa | Charity | 1 bookmarks

"The ocean, whose tides respond, like women's menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid in which human life begins, the ocean on whose surface vessels (personified as female) can ride but in whose depth sailors meet their death and monsters conceal themselves... it is unstable and threatening as the earth is not; it spawns new life daily, yet swallows up lives; it is changeable like the moon, unregulated, yet indestructible and eternal."

Rich, Adrienne | Sea | 2 bookmarks

"In the depth of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."

Camus, Albert | Potential | 4 bookmarks

"Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them."

Rutherford, Samuel | Children | 3 bookmarks

"Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still."

Buscaglia, Leo | Love | 5 bookmarks