Top 93 Ocean Wave Sayings
#1. SIREN, n. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade Odysseus from a life on the ocean wave. Figuratively, any lady of splendid promise, dissembled purpose and disappointing performance.
Ambrose Bierce
#2. I walk like an ocean wave, and I sing like a storm. My voice is a force of its own, and I let it loose like a hurricane.
C.D. Reiss
#3. A life on the ocean wave! A home on the rolling deep, Where the scattered waters rave, And the winds their revels keep!
Epes Sargent
#4. I do like the ocean wave, actually. I'm born under the sign of Cancer - the sign of the crab - so I like coastal areas and sunny beaches and such - although not the wide-open and deep seas.
Anjelica Huston
#5. You don't need to be the tide to rise and fall,
you don't have to be a wave to touch the shore;
just be a little sand-grain and feel them all
Munia Khan
#6. I am no longer the wave of consciousness thinking itself separated from the sea of cosmic consciousness. I am the ocean of Spirit that has become the wave of human life.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#7. See her gentle sway, a wave on the ocean could never move that way.
Johnny Tillotson
#8. 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
#9. Your surfing can get better on every turn, on every wave you catch. Learn to read the ocean better. A big part of my success has been wave knowledge.
Kelly Slater
#10. Once you jump in the ocean of love there's nothing to be done, just to be enjoyed, every wave of it, every hue of it, every touch of it. That is what one has to learn by reasoning that Sahaja Yoga is nothing but - is love.
Nirmala Srivastava
#11. I am the Cosmic Ocean of sound and the little wave of the body vibration in it.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#12. Every wave in an ocean has a secret to tell you; life is a wave of love so let it flow over you endlessly.
Debasish Mridha
#13. Just as a wave is a movement of the whole ocean, you are the energy of the cosmos. Don't underestimate your power.
Deepak Chopra
#14. How do I know who I am or where I am? How could a single wave locate itself in an ocean.
Rumi
#15. If Brahman an infinite ocean, then Atma a wave within be,
Ocean not different from its waves, the waves as ocean be;
They are but one and the same very similar in actuality,
So Brahman and Atma are one and the same in reality.
960
Munindra Misra
#16. The smallest oceans still make big big waves.
Eddie Vedder
#17. My first encounter with the ocean was on the Jersey Shore when I was three years old and I got knocked over by a wave. The ocean certainly got my attention! It wasn't frightening, it was more exhilarating.
Sylvia Earle
#18. Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.
Albert Schweitzer
#19. Loving another person is not separate from loving God. One is a single wave, the other is the ocean.
Deepak Chopra
#20. The true creativity comes out of sitting silently. When you are so totally quiet that there is no thought, no wave in the ocean of your being, out of this silence comes a different kind of creativity.
Rajneesh
#22. You have come from God, you are a spark of His Glory; you are a wave of that Ocean of Bliss; you will get peace only when you again merge in Him.
Sathya Sai Baba
#23. You can either see yourself as a wave in the ocean or you can see yourself as the ocean.
Oprah Winfrey
#24. I think of the feel of water. The way it is when you wade into the ocean and a small wave cascades against you, swirling sand over you and awakening every pore.
Jessica Park
#25. Music is going to break the way because music is in a spiritual thing of its own. It's like the waves of the ocean. You can't just cut out the perfect wave and take it home with you.
Jimi Hendrix
#26. Feel the kiss of ocean breeze,
Hear the song of dancing wave
Let your soul fly away with seagulls
To fill the heart with the joy of life.
Debasish Mridha
#27. Childhood is but a frolicking wave in the vast ocean.Can anyone hold it back?
Adyasha Das
#28. Each of us is like a wave in the ocean, a gust of wind, a lightning bolt - unique, yet at the same time part of a pattern of forces.
P.Z. Myers
#29. Sssh says the ocean
Sssh says the small wave at the shore
sssh not so violent, not so proud, not so remarkable.
Sssh says the surf crowding around the outcrops, washing the shore.
Sssh, they say to people, this is our Earth, our eternity.
Rolf Jacobsen
#30. Don't fight the waves. Dive under, bob up, or catch the curl and ride the wave. The ocean is stronger than you; you might as well be a matchstick in comparison. But if you yield to the waves, they carry you, their power becomes you. ~ Elizabeth Cunningham
Kytka Hilmar-Jezek
#31. Autumn comes to the sea with a fresh blaze of phosphorescence, when every wave crest is aflame. Here and there the whole surface may glow with sheets of cold fire, while below schools of fish pour through the water like molten metal.
Rachel Carson
#32. Caught by a wave,
my back to the ocean
It knocks me off my feet and
Just as I find my footing
Here you come again
Dave Matthews Band
#33. Today, in every wave of every ocean, I see our children playing and dancing. Today, in every plant, tree, and mountain, I see our children growing in freedom.
Kailash Satyarthi
#34. Michael Jackson was part of that tremendous wave in the ocean of human expression and it happened to be located first and foremost in Gary, Indiana, working class.
Cornel West
#35. The wave is born, and all it sees are other waves and feels these other waves are separate. But things are not as they seem. The wave is simply the ocean in specific expression. Once the life of the wave is over, it goes back to being the ocean. It was always the ocean.
Jeff Krasno
#36. Everything happens fast, but nothing actually happens. Each story on televised news is "breaking" until it is displaced by the next one. So we are hit by wave upon wave but never see the ocean. The
Timothy Snyder
#37. If salt ocean is the Great Mother from whom all life has sprung, fresh water is the Nurse entrusted to nourish life within her wanderings and around her wave-lapped margins.
Henry Williamson
#38. You can't push a wave onto the shore any faster than the ocean brings it in.
Susan Strasberg
#39. It was any wonder how a wave could withstand such a look from eyes like that and continue to build towards him.
His eyes were her ocean in those brief seconds.
Lindsay Chamberlin
#40. If the ocean was pure mind and I was a wave, I would be in terror if Itried to distinguish myself fromthe water that produced me.What is a wave without water, and what is a mind without God?
Hugh Prather
#41. I've dropped my pebble in the ocean, and hopefully; throughout the course of the day; millions of others will drop theirs in too. No single one of us knows which pebble causes the wave to crest, but each of us, quite rightly, believes that it might be ours; an act of faith.
Michael J. Fox
#42. I love being in the ocean. I love the unpredictability of it- size of wave, animals you see, etc.
Francis Chan
#43. Life is a wave in the ocean of time. It touches the heart of the universe like a beautiful rhyme. We are riding the wave as spirits rhyme.
Debasish Mridha
#44. Time is the wave upon the shore. It takes some things away, but it brings other things.
Amy Neftzger
#45. Eternal Father, strong to save, Whose arm hath bound the restless wave, Who bidd'st the mighty ocean deep, Its own appointed limits keep; Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee, For those in peril on the sea.
Nick Elliott
#46. The wave is the same as the ocean, though it is not the whole ocean. So each wave of creation is a part of the eternal Ocean of Spirit. The Ocean can exist without the waves, but the waves cannot exist without the Ocean.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#47. Like a wave on the ocean I will always come right back to you.
Hunter Hayes
#48. A wave in the ocean is a wave, only in so far as it is bound by name and form.
Swami Vivekananda
#49. Everything we do, even the slightest thing we do, can have a ripple effect and repercussions that emanate. If you throw a pebble into the water on one side of the ocean, it can create a tidal wave on the other side.
Victor Webster
#50. He reached out and pushed some hair behind her ears. The gesture was tender, but it hit her with an unexpected force, like when you're in the ocean and a wave hits you. It's so soft and coll that it surprised you that it has such strength.
Sarah Addison Allen
#51. Wild waves rise and fall when they arrive
And that's what makes the calm sea alive
Munia Khan
#52. You didn't come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
Alan W. Watts
#53. Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave 'til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know.
Rumi
#54. Any wave of the ocean could be my epitaph.
Marty Rubin
#55. Nothing is everlasting, everything is transforming like a wave in the ocean.
Debasish Mridha
#57. I met his dark brown eyes. His fingers skimmed the back of my hand. The sensation tickled like a spring breeze yet hit me like a wave rushing from the ocean.
Katie McGarry
#58. Ye waves That o'er th' interminable ocean wreathe Your crisped smiles.
Aeschylus
#59. For now I stand as one upon a rock environed with a wilderness of sea, who marks the waxing tide grow wave by wave, expecting ever when some envious surge will in his brinish bowels swallow him.
William Shakespeare
#60. Just like a sunbeam can't separate itself from the sun, and a wave can't separate itself from the ocean,
we can't separate ourselves from one another.
We are all part of a vast sea of love, one indivisible divine mind.
Marianne Williamson
#61. You, yourself, are the eternal energy which appears as this Universe. You didn't come into this world; you came out of it. Like a wave from the ocean.
Alan Watts
#62. The sun and its light, the ocean and the wave, the singer and his song - not one. Not two.
Anthony De Mello
#63. To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave.
Elvis Presley
#64. Whilst breezy waves toss up their silvery spray.
Thomas Hood
#65. Every thought has the power to spread its effects on other minds as a wave can spread all over the ocean.
Debasish Mridha
#66. My love, i would like even more; to be an ocean if you are the wave; to be a wave, if you are the ocean.
Nicolas Guillen
#67. You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
Alan Watts
#69. I am you; you are ME. You are the waves; I am the ocean. Know this and be free, be divine.
Sathya Sai Baba
#70. 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
#71. You're not a wave, you're a part of the ocean.
Mitch Albom
#72. 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
#74. Alone I walked on the ocean strand, A pearly shell was in my hand; I stooped, and wrote upon the sand My name, the year, the day. As onward from the sport I passed, One lingering look behind I cast, A wave came rolling high and fast, And washed my lines away.
Hannah Flagg Gould
#75. Just because we didn't end up on the same wave, doesn't mean we aren't still a part of the same ocean.
Colleen Hoover
#76. But it hit her with an unexpected force, like when you're in the ocean and a wave hits you. It's so soft and cool that it surprises you that it has such strength.
Sarah Addison Allen
#77. With the realization of God comes all power. If the little wave knew that behind it is the great ocean, it could say, "I am the ocean." You should realize that just behind your consciousness is the Ocean of God.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#78. Once more upon the waters! yet once more!
And the waves bound beneath me as a steed
That knows his rider.
Lord Byron
#79. You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
Alan W. Watts
#80. I spent uncounted hours sitting at the bow looking at the water and the sky, studying each wave, different from the last, seeing how it caught the light, the air, the wind; watching patterns, the sweep of it all, and letting it take me.
The sea.
Gary Paulsen
#81. You are the vanguard of knowledge and consciousness; a new wave in a vast ocean of possibilities.
Jim Carrey
#82. I am humility, nothing more and nothing less. I am one blade of grass in a sea of grass. I am one wave in an endless ocean of waves. I am one glowing star in a galaxy of stars.
Frederick Lenz
#83. Our lives are like ripples in the vast ocean of consciousness; like waves we rise and fall, yet we never disappear, for the ocean is infinite and eternal, and a wave is nothing but that ocean.
Deepak Chopra
#84. How does the ocean say hello to the shore ... it gives it a little wave.
Penny Reid
#85. Our identity in the world is like a wave from the Ocean.
Kishore Bansal
#86. Myriad laughter of the ocean waves.
Aeschylus
#87. There is a classic Zen saying that a wave cannot be separated from the ocean, nor can the ocean be separated from a wave.
David Levy
#88. Imagine a vast ocean. Feel that you are part of that ocean. Imagine that each wave in the ocean is slowly moving through you. Feel that each wave is a wave of joy.
Frederick Lenz
#89. Surely, surely, slumber is more sweet than toil, the shore
Than labor in the deep mid-ocean, wind and wave and oar;
O, rest ye, brother mariners, we will not wander more.
Alfred Tennyson
#90. Don't some people say, 'You did not value me'? What value did you have at all? Go ask the ocean, 'what is my worth?' You will be swept away with one wave. The owner of many waves has swept away many a people like you! Worth is in those people who have no attachment-abhorrence.
Dada Bhagwan
#91. Whatever our struggles,and whether we sink or swim,our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean
Arthur Golden
#92. Now I know that our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean. Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery ink on paper.
Arthur Golden
#93. The great ocean, crooning its lullaby with one unceasing melody, lapped the island to sleep with a thousand soft touches of its wave's white hands. The
Rabindranath Tagore
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