Top 39 A Drop In The Ocean Quotes
#1. You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.
Rumi
#2. 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-
A Meredith Walters
#3. 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
#4. 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 Shafak
#5. Every day now, I found a chance to slip outside and leave food under the fence. I knew it was a drop in the ocean, but I could not do nothing.
Irene Gut Opdyke
#6. 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
#7. We aren't a drop in the ocean, but are the ocean, in drops.
Anne Lamott
#8. It's only a drop in the ocean - but the ocean wouldn't be the same without that drop.
Mother Teresa
#9. What we are trying to do may be just a drop in the ocean, but the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
Greg Mortenson
#11. We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.
Mother Teresa
#12. If there's one lesson that I've been taught it is that when it comes to the bad, everyone wants to be a drop in the ocean. Insignificant and without fault. They want to be a drop instead of the straw that breaks the camel's back.
Kay Whitley
#13. Say it with me: I am a drop in the ocean. I am neighbour, nation, north and nowhere. I am one among many and we all fall together.
Stephen Kelman
#14. Like a drop in the ocean, so a single person carries within themselves the universe surrounding them.
Terez Virag
#15. The time of human domination on Earth is barely a drop in the ocean of geological time, and it takes a lot to make a ripple in that ocean.
Mike Carey
#16. I don't know if you can change things, but it's a drop in the ocean.
Julie Walters
#18. 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
#19. If a raindrop that falls into the ocean viewed itself as man views himself, the raindrop would then be a drop of water trapped in an ocean, when in reality, the raindrop is the ocean.
Craig Smedley
#20. Looking over the beach and the ocean as the sun begins to drop down in the west, a strange sense of pride: pride in all I've done and lived through, proud to think of the thousands of people I've met and known and the few I've loved.
William Boyd
#21. Kissing her in the ocean and feeling my entire world stop. Wishing I could be normal, if only to be with her. Because she hadn't just taught me how to surf and shoot zombies and to scream while plunging down a roller-coaster drop. She had shown me how to live.
Julie Kagawa
#22. When you are exposed to others' negativity, you do not need to respond. You can choose to put your attention elsewhere and let their words be a tiny drop in the infinite ocean of your peaceful silence.
Deepak Chopra
#23. The creature's good is a superadded quality, in God it is His essence. He is infinitely good; the creature's good is but a drop, but in God there in an infinite ocean or gathering together of good.
Thomas Manton
#24. Remember, the moon is reflected in one drop of water as it is the entire ocean-so it is with God. He is reflected in each living thing-in a grain of sand as the entire shore, one star as the whole universe. Each animal as in all creatures.
Ralph Helfer
#25. One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.
Hannah More
#26. Drop a word in the ocean of meaning and concentric ripples form. To define a single word means to try to catch those ripples. No one's hands are fast enough.
Robert Bringhurst
#27. There were a couple of occasions in India when I was twenty that felt to me like going out with a thimble in your hand, hoping to catch a drop of rain, and having the ocean land on your head. These experiences convinced me that there is an absolute love that pervades everything.
David James Duncan
#28. Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean,
man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives.
Man's life is independent.
He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self too.
B.R. Ambedkar
#29. When I open my eyes to the outer world I feel myself as a drop in the sea. But when I close my eyes and look within, I see the whole universe as a bubble raised in the ocean of my heart.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#30. Some people would say- you're only a drop, your word-breaking is only a drop, it wouldn't matter. But all the evil in the world's made up of little drops. It's silly talking about the unimportance of the little drops. The little drops and the ocean are the same thing.
John Fowles
#31. I to the world am like a drop of water
That in the ocean seeks another drop,
Who, falling there to find his fellow forth,
Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself.
William Shakespeare
#32. I wanted to be something else, anything else. I could be a snail on a leaf, or the leaf itself. I could be a pig in the mud or a cow grazing in the field. I could be a drop of rain that fell from the heavens, or a shimmering fish deep in the ocean. But I was human and I had feelings
Burbuqe Raufi
#33. We want any effort on our part to be the winning effort. We don't want to be a drop in the bucket, we want to be the entire ocean.
Brennan Lee Mulligan
#34. You are an ocean in a drop of dew,
all the universes in a thin sack of blood.
What are these pleasures then,
these joys, these worlds
that you keep reaching for,
hoping they will make you more alive?
Rumi
#35. Just as a drop of water in the ocean cannot avail much; but if a great river runneth into it, that maketh a great commotion.
Jakob Bohme
#36. Every general and every soldier was conscious of his own insignificance, aware of being but a drop in that ocean of men, and yet at the same time was conscious of his strength as a part of that enormous whole.
Leo Tolstoy
#37. An ocean of ink in a single drop,
Trembling at the tip of my brush.
Poised above stark white paper,
A universe waits for existence.
Lao-Tzu
#38. The near explains the far. The drop is a small ocean. A man is related to all nature. This perception of the worth of the vulgar is fruitful in discoveries. Goethe, in this very thing the most modern of the moderns, has shown us, as none ever did, the genius of the ancients.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#39. In this ocean of time, life is smaller than a drop of water. To create an impact, create a massive wave with the power of your infinite love.
Debasish Mridha
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