Reaching The Ocean

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. - Publilius Syrus

Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm. - Publilius Syrus

Pencil: A tiny tree used to draw a line in the sand - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Who is staring at the sea is already sailing a little. - Paul Carvel

Time is like the ocean, always there, always different. - Ogden Nash

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. - Ludwig Borne

Mother is the home we come from. She is nature, soil, ocean. - Erich Fromm

The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears or the sea. - Isak Dinesen

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish. - Minna Antrim

The magic of Hawaii comes from the stillness, the sea, the stars. - Joanne Harris

Grandma, thank you for being my anchor in this stormy sea of life. - Unknown

She's a skeleton in the sand right now. She comes and she goes. - Annalies Corbin

Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly. - Morticia Addams

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. - Honore de Balzac

Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink. - Shunryi Suzuki-roshi

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. - Christopher Columbus

Like the cosmetics industry, the securities business is engaged in selling illusion. - Paul Samuelson

The ocean, the desert, and the jungle are the last strongholds and resorts of peace. - P C Wren

Politicians who complain about the media are like sailors who complain about the sea. - Enoch Powell

Is this chicken or is this fish? I know it's tuna but it says chicken of the sea. - Jessica Simpson

Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment. - Isabel Allende

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. - Irish Murdoch

No one would have ever crossed the ocean if they could have gotten off the ship in the storm. - Charles F. Ketterling

Language is our meeting place, the sea we live in... it is the common ground of our humanity. - Toby Wolfe

The illusion that the times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages. - Horace Greeley

When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually. - Steven Wright

The sun always comes up. Spring always comes after winter. The river always reaches the ocean. Always. - Maxime Lagace

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live. - Mark Twain

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. - Woody Allen

It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work. - Hugh N Jacobsen

Love one another, but make not a bond of love. Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. - Kahlil Gibran

My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops? - David Mitchell

Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen. - Steven Wright

The Duchess smashed the bottle against the bow and amid the applause of the crowd she slid on her greasy bottom into the sea. - Unknown

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. - Bill Vaughan

God moves in a mysterious way
His wonders to perform;
He plants His footsteps in the sea
And rides upon the storm. - William Cowper

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die. - W H Auden

Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need. - Tom Robbins

Clay. It's rain, dead leaves, dust, all my dead ancestors. Stones that have been ground into sand. Mud. The whole cycle of life and death. - Martine Vermeulen