Drops In The Ocean Quotes

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

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Christian, Wisdom

  Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.213, Image

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• Little drops of water, little grains of sand,
  Make the mighty ocean, and the pleasant land.
  So the little minutes, humble though they be,
  Make the mighty ages of eternity.

  Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney

  Time, Ocean, Humble

  Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney, “Little Things”

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

  Rumi

  Ocean, Compassion

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• It's only a drop in the ocean - but the ocean wouldn't be the same without that drop.

  Mother Teresa

  Ocean, Thought Provoking, Provoking

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• Every drop in the ocean counts.

  Yoko Ono

  Beach, Art, Ocean

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• You're not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.

  Rumi

  Ocean

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?

  David Mitchell

  Inspiring, Ocean, Atlas

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• Prayer in action is love, and love in action is service. Try to give unconditionally whatever a person needs in the moment. The point is to do something, however small, and show you care through your actions by giving your time ... Do not worry about why problems exist in the world - just respond to people's needs ... We feel what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean, but that ocean would be less without that drop.

  Mother Teresa

  Prayer, Ocean, People

  Mother Teresa (1995). “A Simple Path-Open Market”

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• We realize that what we are accomplishing is a drop in the ocean. But if this drop were not in the ocean, it would be missed.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Motivational, Ocean

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• What is any ocean but a multitude of drops?

  David Mitchell

  Ocean, Atlas, Multitudes

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.506, Random House Group

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• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Faith, Hope

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.30, Courier Corporation

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• You are not the drop in the ocean, but the ocean in the drop.

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• A drop in the ocean has no fear of a hurricane.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Ocean, Water, Hurricanes

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• I don't know if you can change things, but it's a drop in the ocean.

  Julie Walters

  Change, Ocean, Knows

  "Julie Walters: An actress in her prime". Interview with James Mottram, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2001.

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

  Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

  Ocean

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• Because time is a drop in the ocean, and you cannot measure off one drop against another to see which one is bigger, which one is smaller.

  Elif Safak

  Ocean, Bigger

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• We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do - it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Life, Hurt, Ocean

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.220, Cambridge University Press

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• My "drop in the ocean" will contribute to the enlightenment of Europe, so to speak.

  Varg Vikernes

  Ocean, Europe, Enlightenment

  Source: heathenharvest.org

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• Yes, twenty-seven million in slavery is a lot of people, but it is just .0043 percent of the world's population. Yes, $23 billion a year in slave-made products as services is a lot of money but it is exactly what Americans spent on Valentine's Day in 2005. If humans trafficking generates $32 billion in profits annually, that is still a tiny drop in the ocean of the world economy.

  Kevin Bales

  Valentine, Ocean, Years

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• I was drifting away like a drop in the ocean, and now I realize that nothing has been as beautiful as when I saw heaven's skies.

  Michelle Branch

  Beautiful, Philosophy, Ocean

  Song: Drop In The Ocean, Album: The Spirit Room, 2001

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• According to Eshin's Essentials of Salvation, the Ten Pleasures are but a drop in the ocean when compared to the joys of the Pure Land.

  Yukio Mishima

  Ocean, Land, Joy

  Yukio Mishima (1966). “Death in Midsummer, and Other Stories”, p.59, New Directions Publishing

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