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• Now this is very profound, what rhythm is, and goes far deeper than words. A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in the mind, long before it makes words to fit it.

  Virginia Woolf

  Sight, Profound, Long

  Virginia Woolf (1983). “To the lighthouse: the original holograph draft”, Chatto & Windus

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• Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes a part of us away and deposits treasures we never imagined. Out goes naivete, in comes wisdom; out goes anger, in comes discernment; out goes despair, in comes kindness. No one would call it easy, but the rhythm of emotional pain that we learn to tolerate is natural, constructive and expansive... The pain leaves you healthier than it found you.

  Martha Beck

  Inspirational, Pain, Kindness

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• I spin on the circle of wave upon wave of the sea.

  Pablo Neruda

  Sea, Circles, Water

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• Waves are toys from God.

  Clay Marzo

  Surfing, Toys

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• I see nothing. We may sink and settle on the waves. The sea will drum in my ears. The white petals will be darkened with sea water. They will float for a moment and then sink. Rolling over the waves will shoulder me under. Everything falls in a tremendous shower, dissolving me.

  Virginia Woolf

  Fall, Sea, White

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.152, Virginia Woolf

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• The storms come and go, the waves crash overhead, the big fish eat the little fish, and I keep on paddling. (Varys)

  George R. R. Martin

  Big Fish, Storm, Paddling

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.808, Bantam

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• 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

  Nature, Moving, Voice

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  Surfing soothes me, it's always been a kind of Zen experience for me. The ocean is so magnificent, peaceful, and awesome. The rest of the world disappears for me when I'm on a wave.

  Paul Walker

  Ocean, Wave Of Life, Peaceful

  FaceBook post by Paul Walker from Jun 20, 2014

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• Heir follows heir, as wave succeeds to wave.

  Horace

  Heirs, Succeed

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• I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.

  Drew Barrymore

  Beach, Ocean, Wave Of Life

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• Sounds travel through space long after their wave patterns have ceased to be detectable by the human ear: some cut right through the ionosphere and barrel on out into the cosmic heartland, while others bounce around, eventually being absorbed into the vibratory fields of earthly barriers, but in neither case does the energy succumb; it goes on forever - which is why we, each of us, should take pains to make sweet notes.

  Tom Robbins

  Music, Sweet, Pain

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.143, Bantam

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• To finish first you have to first finish. Don't get in a position where you go back to go. What's interesting is that some guy whose grandfather was a lawyer and a judge-hurriedly going to Harvard Law with a wave of veterans-I was willing to go into so many different businesses. I was constantly going right into the other fellow's business and doing better than the other fellow did. The reason it was possible? Self-education- developing mental discipline, big ideas that really work.

  Charlie Munger

  Law, Ideas, Self

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• The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Strength, Law, Curves

  The Christian Science Monitor, June 18, 1964.

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• The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Fighting

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1940). “The Wave of the Future a Confession of Faith”

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• Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.

  Andre Gide

  Happiness, Loyalty, Past

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• I can tell that the Greater Yellowstone from the Tetons, to the Lamar Valley where wolves howl and grizzlies roam, acts as my spine, my range of memory that ties me to landscape of Other. And that the ocean from the rocky coast of Maine, to the Florida everglades, to the looming cliffs at Big Sur, sustain me, remind me we are nothing without salt water, wind, and waves.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Memories, Ocean, Yellowstone

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Every wave is new until it breaks.

  Neil Young

  Break

  Song: Rapid Transit, Album: Re-ac-tor

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• Waves from moving sources: Adagio. Andante. Allegro moderato.

  Oliver Heaviside

  Moving, Source, Adagio

  "Electromagnetic Theory, Volume III". Book by Oliver Heaviside, Pub. Co London, p. 1; "The Electrician", 1912.

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• There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Symbolism, Hopeful, Cynical

  "Values of the Wise: Humanity's Highest Aspirations". Book by Jason Merchey, 2003.

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• The flag of your nation - wave it! Begin to separate your nation from whatever covenant your forefathers must have had. Break the covenant of corruption/ stealing/ killing/ destruction/ idolatry - break it right now!

  T. B. Joshua

  Flags, Covenant, Corruption

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• O what a blessing is Sunday, interposed between the waves of worldly business like the divine path of the Israelites through the sea! There is nothing in which I would advise you to be more strictly conscientious than in keeping the Sabbath day holy. I can truly declare that to me the Sabbath has been invaluable.

  William Wilberforce

  Sunday, Blessing, Sea

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• A mood disorder is dangerous. You've got to get those dramatic waves of highs and lows stabilized. It's dangerous if you don't.

  Jane Pauley

  Dramatic, Mood, Lows

  "Pauley: 'I was suffering from bipolar disorder'". Interview with Matt Lauer, www.today.com. August 31, 2004.

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• For this is the truth about our soul, he thought, who fish-like inhabits deep seas and plies among obscurities threading her way between the boles of giant weeds, over sun-flickered spaces and on and on into gloom, cold, deep, inscrutable; suddenly she shoots to the surface and sports on the wind-wrinkled waves; that is, has a positive need to brush, scrape, kindle herself, gossiping.

  Virginia Woolf

  Sports, Weed, Wind

  Virginia Woolf (1996). “Mrs Dalloway”, p.117, Wordsworth Editions

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• Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave 'til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know.

  Rumi

  Giving Up, Ocean, Grace

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.107, Penguin UK

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• The eternal principle, which never was born, never will die: it is in all things: it is in you now. You are the wave on the face of the ocean. When the wave is gone, is the water gone? Has anything happened? Nothing has happened. It is a play, a game, a dance.

  Joseph Campbell

  Ocean, Games, Play

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