Endless Sea Quotes

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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.

  Robert Henri

  Beach, Ocean, Thinking

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.

  Isak Dinesen

  Beach, Encouragement, Ocean

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• Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Healing, I Hate You

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.129, Harvard University Press

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• If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• I also know there are timeless waters, endless seas, and lots of people in this world whose names don't matter to anyone but themselves. I look up at the sky and I see you there.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Sea, Sky, Names

  Edwidge Danticat (2004). “Krik? Krak!”, p.8, Soho Press

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• The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Sea, Greek, Portuguese

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• When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.

  George Burns

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

  George Burns (1986). “Dear George: advice & answers from America's leading expert on everything from A to B”, G K Hall & Co

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• A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Men, Sea

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• If you want to build a ship, teach the men to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Men, Sea, Want

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• The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.

  Robert Browning

  Sea, Land, Break

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.366, Wordsworth Editions

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• At the age of 18, I made up my mind to never have another bad day in my life. I dove into a endless sea of gratitude from which I've never emerged.

  Patch Adams

  Gratitude, Bad Day, Sea

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.

  Horatio Nelson

  Pain, War, Sea

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• There is the life of the plankton in almost endless variety; there are the many kinds of fish, both surface and bottom living; there are the hosts of different invertebrate creatures on the sea-floor; and there are those almost grotesque forms of pelagic life in the oceans depths. Then there are the squids and cuttlefish, and the porpoises, dolphins and great whales.

  Alister Hardy

  Ocean, Whales, Sea

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• Love one another, but make not a bond of love.

  Khalil Gibran

  Marriage, Wedding, Tight Spaces

  Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria

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• I now understand the need for faith - pure, blind, fly-in-the-face-of-reason faith - as a small life preserver in the wild and endless sea of a universe ruled by unfeeling laws and totally indifferent to the small, reasoning beings that inhabit it.

  Dan Simmons

  Faith, Sea, Law

  "Hyperion". Book by Dan Simmons, 1989.

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• When you want to build a ship, then do not drum the men together in order to procure wood, to give instructions or to distribute the work, but teach them longing for the wide endless sea.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Men, Order, Sea

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