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
For a surfer, it’s never ending. There’s always some wave you want to surf. Kelly Slater
You’re not a wave, you’re a part of the ocean. Mitch Albom
It’s a wonderful metaphor catching a wave for how you can look at other challenges in your life. Jeff Bridges
Just take your time wave comes. Let the other guys go, catch another one. Duke Kahanamoku
The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea. Vladimir Nabokov
Just like the ocean always in love with the moon. Jeff Buckley
I’m surfing the giant life wave. William Shatner
Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is no new wave, only the sea. Claude Chabrol
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
Waves are the practice of water. To speak of waves apart from water, or water apart from waves is a delusion. Suzuki Roshi
When you do dance, I wish you a wave o the sea, that you might ever do nothing but that. William Shakespeare
Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles. John Tyndall
It’s a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life. Jeff Bridges
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
There is no new wave, only the sea. Claude Chabrol
You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf? Jon Kabat Zinn
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
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
Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles. John Tyndall
I like being in warm weather. I find that it 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
Waves are inspiring not because they rise and fail, but because each time they fall. They never fail to rise again. Josh Billings
The sea is a desert of waves a wilderness of water. Langston Hughes
I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other. Naguib Mahfouz
Surfing waves of water or clouds of powder snow is the best feeling on earth. Hannah Teter
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 sang her song. Santosh Kalwar
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
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 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
The waves of the sea help me get back to me. Jill Davis
Every wave is new until it breaks. Neil Young
Don’t worry if you’re making waves simply by being yourself. The moon does it all the time. Scott Stabile
Every wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crests, must eventually collapse within itself. Stefan Zweig
Listen to the sound of waves within you. Rumi
Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Feelings are much like waves we can’t stop them from coming, but we can choose which one to surf. Jonatan Mårtensson
When the wild wave meets the calm beach, when anger reaches tranquillity, anger disappears, serenity triumphs, the wave experiences enlightenment! Mehmet Murat ildan
Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life. Tamora Pierce
The cure for anything is salt water sweat, tears, or the sea. Isak Dinesen
For a surfer, it’s never ending. There’s always some wave you want to surf. Kelly Slater
Waves tossed themselves against the shore, dragging grit and sand between their nails as they were slowly pulled back out to sea. Holly Black
The sea, to be happy, like hearts, must be stirred. Will Advise
Like the waves of the ocean, they do not disappear. When one goes away, another one appears. Good women make life an amazing wonder. Gift Gugu Mona
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
A wave is never found alone, but is mingled with the other waves. Leonardo da Vinci
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Henry David Thoreau
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
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
Don’t worry if you’re making waves simply by being yourself. The moon does it all the time. Scott Stabile
Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves. Joseph Campbell
Listen to the sound of waves within you. Rumi
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
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Henry David Thoreau
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
Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves. Joseph Campbell
I love the smell of rain, and I love the sound of the ocean waves. Amy Purdy
Let the waves carry you where the light can not. Mohit Kaushik
Dance with the waves, move with the sea. Let the rhythm of the water set your soul free. Christy Ann Martine
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
The sea is a desert of waves, A wilderness of water. Langston Hughes
Life comes at us in waves. We can’t predict or control those waves, but we can learn to surf. Dan Millman
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
I wasted time and memories on waves. Ben Ditmars
Surfing waves of water or clouds of powder snow is the best feeling on earth. Hannah Teter
Life is like the ocean. You can either be the ball floating on the waves, or make your own waves. Oliver Gaspirtz
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
Like a wave we often float ashore to find something that feels like home. Giovannie de Sadeleer
Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. Muhammad Ali
When you do dance, I wish you a wave of the sea that you might ever do nothing but that. William Shakespeare
But where, after all, would be the poetry of the sea were there no wild waves? Joshua Slocum
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 sang her song. Santosh Kalwar
Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again. Ovid
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
Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves. Swami Sivananda
I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other. Naguib Mahfouz
Let the waves carry you where the light can not. Mohit Kaushik
The sea, to be happy, like hearts, must be stirred. Will Advise
Waves are not measured in feet or inches, they are measured in increments of fear. Buzzy Trent
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
Being creative on the waves is challenging, but we each create art in our own way. Bethany Hamilton
Waves are not measured in feet or inches, they are measured in increments of fear. Buzzy Trent
Just as the ocean has waves or the sun has rays, so the minds’s own radiance is its thoughts and emotions. Sogyal Rinpoche
Love fragrances and colours the breath waves that inspire the heart language. Ehsan Sehgal
Life comes at us in waves. We can’t predict or control those waves, but we can learn to surf Dan Millman
True love is the tide that pulls out to sea, but always returns to kiss the shore at sunrise. Shannon L. Alder
I wasted time and memories on waves. Ben Ditmars
Let us be the waves of love and let it wash the universe. Debasish Mridha
You are the ocean; everything else is just waves and wind. Steve Maraboli
Waves are not as dangerous as fear of waves. Vikrmn
Life is like the ocean. You can either be the ball floating on the waves, or make your own waves. Oliver Gaspirtz
To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave. Elvis Presley
He was beneath the waves, a creature crawling the ocean bottom. Doppo Kunikida
Now this is very profound, what rhythm is, and goes far deeper than words. A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in the mind, long before it makes words to fit it. Virginia Woolf
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