The word wave has many different meanings, but they all have to do with an undulating motion or shape. Profoundly inspirational waves quotes will brighten up your day and make you feel ready to take on anything.
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Famous Waves Quotes
The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea. – Vladimir Nabokov
Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I wish to spend a lifetime near a lighthouse where loneliness will be the glimmer of luminous prancing upon ocean waves… rising and falling only for my breathing. – Munia Khan
Just take your time – wave comes. Let the other guys go, catch another one. – Duke Kahanamoku
When you do dance, I wish you a wave o’ the sea, that you might ever do nothing but that. – William Shakespeare
Waves are toys from God. – Clay Marzo
Listen to the sound of waves within you. – Rumi
Waves are the practice of water. To speak of waves apart from water, or water apart from waves, is a delusion. – Suzuki Roshi
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. The waves were steeped deep-blue save for a pattern of diamond-pointed light on their backs which rippled as the backs of great horses ripple with muscles as they move. The waves fell; withdrew and fell again, like the thud of a great beast stamping. – Virginia Woolf
You’re not a wave, you’re a part of the ocean. – Mitch Albom
Her happiness floated like waves of ocean along the coast of her life. She found lyrics of her life in his arms but she never sung her song. – Santosh Kalwar
It’s a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life. – Jeff Bridges
There is no new wave, only the sea. – Claude Chabrol
Waves are not measured in feet or inches, they are measured in increments of fear. – Buzzy Trent
Let the waves carry you where the light can not. – Mohit Kaushik
You can never ride on the wave that came in and went out yesterday. – John Wanamaker
The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave. – Thomas Jefferson
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. – Baroness Orczy
Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles. – John Tyndall
You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf. – Jon Kabat-Zinn
Waves are inspiring not because they rise and fail, but because each time they fall. They never fail to rise again. – Josh Billings
I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other. – Naguib Mahfouz
Just like the ocean always in love with the moon. – Jeff Buckley
When the wild wave meets the calm beach, when anger reaches tranquillity, anger disappears, serenity triumphs, the wave experiences enlightenment! – Mehmet Murat ildan
A wave is never found alone, but is mingled with the other waves. – Leonardo da Vinci
There are always waves on the water. Sometimes they are big, sometimes they are small, and sometimes they are almost imperceptible. The water’s waves are churned up by the winds, which come and go and vary in direction and intensity, just as do the winds of stress and change in our lives, which stir up the waves in our minds. – Jon Kabat-Zinn
The waves of the sea help me get back to me. – Jill Davis
Don’t worry if you’re making waves simply by being yourself. The moon does it all the time. – Scott Stabile
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Feelings are much like waves: we can’t stop them from coming, but we can choose which one to surf. – Jonatan Mårtensson
Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life. – Tamora Pierce
For a surfer, it’s never-ending. There’s always some wave you want to surf. – Kelly Slater
The sea, to be happy, like hearts, must be stirred. – Will Advise
You never really know what’s coming. A small wave, or maybe a big one. All you can really do is hope that when it comes, you can surf over it, instead of drown in its monstrosity. – Alysha Speer
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. – Henry David Thoreau
The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea. – Isak Dinesen
Love was like the waves in the sea, gentle and good sometimes, rough and terrible at others, but that it was endless and stronger than the sky and earth and everything in between. – Veronica Rossi
Only those who row the boat make waves. – Christina Dodd
Waves are not as dangerous as fear of waves. – Vikrmn
The wave does not need to die to become water. She is already water. – Nhat Hanh
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. – Kelly Slater
Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves. – Joseph Campbell
Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it. – Marcus Aurelius
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. – Stephen A. Schwarzman
I love the smell of rain, and I love the sound of the ocean waves. – Amy Purdy
Dance with the waves, move with the sea. Let the rhythm of the water set your soul free. – Christy Ann Martine
The sea is a desert of waves, A wilderness of water. – Langston Hughes
Currents shift and move but it’s only where the water breaks that the wave becomes visible. A pandemonium occurs, where substances collide, and then something new comes into being. – Clare Strahan
Surfing waves of water or clouds of powder snow is the best feeling on earth. – Hannah Teter
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
Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. – Muhammad Ali
But where, after all, would be the poetry of the sea were there no wild waves? – Joshua Slocum
Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again. – Ovid
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Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves. – Swami Sivananda
Stop running after the waves. Let the sea come to you. – Elif Safak
Waves keep coming, that’s the one thing you can count on in life. – Gerry Lopez
There is not secret to balance. You just have to feel the waves. – Frank Herbert
The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. – Edward Gibbon
Wild waves rise and fall when they arrive and that’s what makes the calm sea alive. – Munia Khan
A wave can kill you. Or you can ride it. It’s sometimes more dangerous to shy away. You can’t live your life in fear. You have to be prepared to get on your board and stand on your feet. If you are in the barrel of a wave you have to ignore the fear. You have to be in that moment. You have to carve on through. You get scared, and the next thing you know you are off your board and smashing your head on a rock. I’m never going to live in fear. – Matt Haig
In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light. – Dogen
The wave is the same thing as the water, the effect is the cause in another form. – Swami Vivekananda
You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf. – Jon Kabat-Zinn
Every wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crests, must eventually collapse within itself. – Stefan Zweig
Being creative on the waves is challenging, but we each create art in our own way. – Bethany Hamilton
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? – C. S. Lewis
Just as the ocean has waves or the sun has rays, so the minds’s own radiance is its thoughts and emotions. – Sogyal Rinpoche
The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore. – Cyril Connolly
Every wave is new until it breaks. – Neil Young
Waves, once they land on the beach, are not reversible. – Grace Paley
There’s no way to move without making waves. – Malcolm Forbes
Life comes at us in waves. We can’t predict or control those waves, but we can learn to surf. – Dan Millman
