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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: book, inspirational
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    Van Morrison
    “Hark, now hear the sailors cry,
    Smell the sea, and feel the sky,
    Let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic.

    - Into the Mystic”
    ― Van Morrison, Lit Up Inside: Selected Lyrics
    tags: magic, ocean, sailing, sea
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    Hermann Broch
    “Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.”
    ― Hermann Broch
    tags: ocean, sea
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    Jennifer Elisabeth
    “Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be.”
    ― Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
    tags: anxiety, art, beach, born-ready, cape-cod, coming-of-age, constellations, crazy, depression, destiny, fate, friends, girls, growing, growing-up, hope, insanity, inspiration, jennifer-elisabeth, learning, life, love, lovers, ocean, pray, prayer, red-thread, red-thread-of-destiny, red-thread-of-fate, self-acceptance, self-love, self-reflection, soul, soul-mates, stars, teenagers, teens, time, universe, wish
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    Lauren DeStefano
    “‎I have always been fascinated by the ocean, to dip a limb beneath its surface and know that I'm touching eternity, that it goes on forever until it begins here again.”
    ― Lauren DeStefano, Wither
    tags: ocean
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    “I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.”
    ― Le Testament d'Orphée
    tags: french, ocean
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    “All matter, including you and I, has rhythmic movement within it and our quest should be to create a proper rhythmic harmony within ourselves…you feel happy when you sit near an ocean because your vibrations try to synchronize with the frequency of the waves.”
    ― Ed Viswanathan, Am I A Hindu? The Hinduism Primer
    tags: harmony, hinduism, ocean
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    Linda Gerber
    “A pool just isn't the same as the ocean. It has no energy. No life.”
    ― Linda Gerber, Death by Bikini
    tags: aphra, bianca, ocean, pool, water
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    Raymond Chandler
    “Under the thinning fog the surf curled and creamed, almost without sound, like a thought trying to form inself on the edge of consciousness.”
    ― Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep
    tags: fog, ocean, surf, thought
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    Joy N. Hensley
    “You are not a drop in the ocean. You are an ocean in a drop.”
    ― Joy N. Hensley, Rites of Passage
    tags: ocean
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    Jennifer Elisabeth
    “I fantasize the night sky to be like a cosmic blue print of my life as I close my eyes and unbutton my heart…. just in case anyone up there is listening.”
    ― Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
    tags: anxiety, art, beach, born-ready, cape-cod, coming-of-age, constellations, depression, destiny, fate, friends, girls, growing, growing-up, healing, hope, inspiration, jennifer-elisabeth, learning, life, love, lovers, ocean, pray, prayer, red-thread, red-thread-of-destiny, red-thread-of-fate, self-acceptance, self-love, self-reflection, soul, soul-mates, stars, teenagers, teens, time, universe, wish
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    Daniel James Brown
    “A good shell has to have life and resiliency to get in harmony with the swing of the crew.”
    ― Daniel James Brown, The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
    tags: boating, inspirational, ocean, ocean-rowing, rowing, water
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    Craig D. Lounsbrough
    “To think that we grasp the fullness of life is to say that by holding a mere drop of water in our hands we are able to understand the immensity of the ocean.”
    ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
    tags: belief, comprehension, comprehensive, conceive, existence, grasp, hands, immense, immensity, knowledge, life, limitations, limited, living, myopic, ocean, perception, point-of-view, short-sighted, understanding, water, wisdom
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    Jodi Picoult
    “What makes a treasure a treasure." Marine replied, "is how rare a find it is, when you need it the most.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, Between the Lines
    tags: marina, mermaid, oliver
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    Anita Desai
    “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”
    ― Anita Desai
    tags: travel
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Travel brings power and love back into your life.”
    ― Rumi Jalalud-Din
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    Erol Ozan
    “Some beautiful paths can't be discovered without getting lost.”
    ― Erol Ozan
    tags: beauty, cars, decisions, discovery, driving, fork, highway, journey, journey-of-life, life, life-lessons, lost, lostness, road, road-trip, roads, route, route-66, transportation, travel, voyage
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    Joe Abercrombie
    “Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.”
    ― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings
    tags: ignorance, travel, wisdom
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    Roman Payne
    “Ô, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.”
    ― Roman Payne
    tags: desert, earth, gold, happiness, heat, importance-of-existence, joy, light, optimism, quotes-from-books, quotes-from-modern-writers, riches, roman-payne, short-quote, short-quotes, summer, sun-worship, sunlight, sunny, sunrise, sunset, sunshine, travel, tropical, value
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    Gwyn Thomas
    “But the beauty is in the walking -- we are betrayed by destinations.”
    ― Gwyn Thomas
    tags: beauty, travel, walking
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    Steve Wozniak
    “If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it's within your reach. And it'll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build. It'll be worth it, I promise.”
    ― Steve Wozniak
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    Fred Rogers
    “Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.”
    ― Fred Rogers
    tags: children, heroes, heroism
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    Fred Rogers
    “Love and trust, in the space between what’s said and what’s heard in our life, can make all the difference in the world. ”
    ― Fred Rogers (Mr. Rogers)
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    Fred Rogers
    “At the center of the Universe is a loving heart that continues to beat and that wants the best for every person. Anything that we can do to help foster the intellect and spirit and emotional growth of our fellow human beings, that is our job. Those of us who have this particular vision must continue against all odds. Life is for service.”
    ― Fred Rogers
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    Fred Rogers
    “If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.”
    ― Fred Rogers
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    Fred Rogers
    “Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.”
    ― Fred Rogers, The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember
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    Fred Rogers
    “When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for those things without which humankind cannot survive. Love that conquers hate, peace that rises triumphant over war, and justice that proves more powerful than greed.”
    ― Fred Rogers
    tags: friends, friendship, love, peace
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    Fred Rogers
    “The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.”
    ― Fred Rogers
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    Roman Payne
    “She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She knows nothing of borders and cares nothing for rules or customs. 'Time' for her isn’t something to fight against. Her life flows clean, with passion, like fresh water.”
    ― Roman Payne
    tags: empowerment, exploration, feminism, roman-payne, strong-women, the-wanderess, wander, wanderer, wanderess, wandering
    1915 likes

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    Lemony Snicket
    “Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book
    tags: custom, tradition
    569 likes



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