50 Waves Quotes to Inspire Beach Moments and Life Journeys (2024)

"I love the smell of rain, and I love the sound of the ocean waves."

"God created the heavens and the earth, the oceans and the waves for our enjoyment. Surfing is just my way of worshipping Him."

"Success comes in waves."

"Dance with the waves, move with the sea. Let the rhythm of the water set your soul free."

"Bliss is the ocean, a towel on the sand, the sun out, the chance to swim in waves or walk dragging a stick behind you, a good book, a cold drink."

"A low line of shore was visible at first on the right between the movement of the waves and fog, but when we came further it was lost sight of, and nothing could be seen but the mist curling in the rigging, and a small circle of foam."

"What is more beautiful than a sea of water with a number of white-winged boats skirting its surface? Poetry and beauty contesting with the wind and the waves!"

"People think of waves as going in an orderly crash - whoosh - crash - whoosh, but in fact there are lots of different crashes and whooshes, all at different stages, and all going off at the same time."

"There is no new wave, only the sea."

"I love the sounds and the power of pounding water, whether it is the waves or a waterfall."

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"Down below the broad, roaring waves of the sea break against the deep foundation of the rock. But high above the mountain, the sea, and the peaks of rock the eternal ornamentation blooms silently from the dark depths of the universe."

"When the wild wave meets the calm beach, when anger reaches tranquillity, anger disappears, serenity triumphs, the wave experiences enlightenment! "

"I don't want to be a follower; I want to be a leader and create new waves."

"Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire."

"The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators."

"He ploughs the waves, sows the sand, and hopes to gather the wind in a net, who places his hopes in the heart of a woman."

"Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it. "

"She made gentle the wild oceans of my soul."

"In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light."

"The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness."

"People choose to struggle when people don't want to relax. Sometimes it is not on your side. Relax; calm down. No matter how hard the waves are, you will float on the ocean."

"Life is a series of waves to be embraced and overcome."

"Let the waves carry you where the light can not."

"Have you ever walked along a shoreline, only to have your footprints washed away? That's what Alzheimer's is like. The waves erase the marks we leave behind, all the sand castles. Some days are better than others."

"Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end."

"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."

"A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves."

"Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup."

"Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering."

"When they are gay, the waves echo their gaiety; but when they are sad, then every breaker, as it rolls, seems to bring additional sadness, and to speak to us of hopelessness and of the pettiness of all our joys."

"I like being in warm weather. I find that relaxes me. I like being near water. I like sitting on a beach and sort of hearing the water, watching waves break, looking at the shimmering. I find that really relaxing."

"When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?"

"Can ye fathom the ocean, dark and deep, where the mighty waves and the grandeur sweep?"

"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."

"I'm surfing the giant life wave."

"But where, after all, would be the poetry of the sea were there no wild waves? "

"Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind."

"Once more upon the waters! yet once more! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed. That knows his rider. "

"The waves fell; withdrew and fell again, like the thud of a great beast stamping."

"Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up."

"The waves broke and spread their waters swiftly over the shore. One after another they massed themselves and fell; the spray tossed itself back with the energy of their fall."

"A wave isn't like a skate ramp or mountain; everything's moving around, and you have to time how to move along with it. That's easier with a slow wave."

"Surfing waves of water or clouds of powder snow is the best feeling on earth."

"I was happiest between the waves."

"Let the waves hit your feet, and the sand be your seat."