Waves Breaking Quotes

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

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  Dogen

  Buddhist   Light   Waves Breaking  

  3347

• She bent her finger and then straightened it. The mystery was in the instant before it moved, the dividing moment between not moving and moving, when her intention took effect. It was like a wave breaking. If she could only find herself at the crest, she thought, she might find the secret of herself, that part of her that was really in charge. She brought her forefinger closer to her face and stared at it, urging it to move. It remained still because she was pretending... . And when she did crook it finally, the action seemed to start in the finger itself, not in some part of her mind.

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  Ian Mcewan

  Moving   Waves Breaking   Secret  

  1896

• I thought of you and how you love this beauty, And walking up the long beach all alone I heard the waves breaking in measured thunder As you and I once heard their monotone. Around me were the echoing dunes, beyond me The cold and sparkling silver of the sea -- We two will pass through death and ages lengthen Before you hear that sound again with me.

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  Sara Teasdale

  Beach   Missing Someone   Sea  

  Sara Teasdale (1920). “Flame and Shadow”, p.105, Рипол Классик

  4028

• It's as if I'm Finnick, watching images of my life flash by. The mast of a boat, a silver parachute, Mags laughing, a pink sky, Beetee's trident, Annie in her wedding dress, waves breaking over rocks. Then its over.

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  Suzanne Collins

  Rocks   Sky   Waves Breaking  

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.1375, Scholastic Inc.

  4665

• You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

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  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Inspirational   Change   Positive  

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

  4684

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

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  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Color   Sea   Waves Breaking  

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1844). “The Spanish Student: A Play in Three Acts”, p.50

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• The castle of Cair Paravel on its little hill towered up above them; before them were the sands, with rocks and little pools of salt water, and seaweed, and the smell of the sea and long miles of bluish-green waves breaking for ever and ever on the beach. And oh, the cry of the seagulls! Have you ever heard it? Can you remember?

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  C. S. Lewis

  Beach   Sea   Waves Breaking  

  4623

• Painting a line across canvas with a brush is similar to the motion of a wave breaking.

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  Mary Heilmann

  Waves Breaking   Lines   Painting  

  2369

• There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the cliffs, where love was more intense because it seemed like a shipwreck.

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  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Waves Breaking   Feet   House  

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