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You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.


Rabindranath Tagore

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KELLY JONES I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
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ELIZABETH SCOTT you dont busy yourself arranging straw when you still have that passage that can let in the wind unp...
JOSEPH ANNANG SOWAH You cant be in a position where you dont know what you are going to do next.
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Finn: Because you're standing in front of me.
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And every drop of water in the sea
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MARK TWAIN You cannot win a game of tug-o-war by merely standing firm.
DALE ADAMS Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly...
HELENE HANFF The sea is as near as we come to another world.
ANNE STEVENSON The sea being so deep and so large, I'm sure other mysteries lurk out there, unseen and unsolved.
RICHARD ELLIS To multiply the harbors does not reduce the sea.
EMILY DICKINSON Estuaries are where rivers meet the sea. Our freshwater here comes from 39 different creeks and stre...
TOM GASKILL To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feelthe breath of a mist...
RACHEL CARSON "yes i own a whaler boat, it slides across the sea some folks say im a part of it i know its part of...
JIMMY BUFFETT The fact that one of the activists fell in the sea is entirely their fault.
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PUBLILIUS SYRUS Here I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We three are one in loneliness, an...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Round the cape of a sudden came the sea, And the sun looked over the mountain's rim: And straight wa...
ROBERT BROWNING A ship on the beach is a lighthouse to the sea
DUTCH PROVERB There are no signposts in the sea.
VITA SACKVILLE-WEST And Ye take mine honour from me if Ye take away the sea!
RUDYARD KIPLING If you were queen of bloaters / And I were king of soles, / The sea we'd wag our fins in. / Nor heed...
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CAROLINA JANETTE GOMEZ GONZALEZ I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet. It dont move about f...
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HARUKI MURAKAMI i want to be the best i can be but when i cant i'll try my best to achieve my goal my goals in life ...
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Here I love you and the horizon hides you in vain.
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WALTER WINCHELL We owe all to Jesus crucified. What is your life, my brethren, but the cross? Whence comes the bread...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON We owe all to Jesus crucified. What is your life, my brethren, but the cross? Whence comes the bread...
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SYLVIA EARLE Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
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CAROL CHANNING Remember, you can always find East by staring directly at the sun.
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DON BUSKARD Being a novelist, you can roam around with a story and indulge yourself.
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JAMES ELROY FLECKER I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea...
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LEWIS CARROLL Sex ran in him like the sea
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MARTIN BUXBAUM The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abj...
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DIANA VREELAND I liked the bit about quarter to eleven. (on Debussy's "Dawn to Noon on the Sea")
ERIK SATIE The gray silence, the gray waves, the gray wastes of the sea.
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ELLA WHEELER WILCOX He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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RABINDRANATH TAGORE The man who aims at his own aggrandisement underrates everything else.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE God finds himself by creating.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Death belongs to life as birth does. The walk is in the raising of the foot as in the laying of it d...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Come oh come ye tea-thirsty restless ones - the kettle boils, bubbles and sings, musically
RABINDRANATH TAGORE The fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE We gain freedom when we have paid the full price for our right to live.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Truth cannot afford to be tolerant where it faces positive evil.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Truth comes as conqueror only to those who have lost the art of receiving it as friend
RABINDRANATH TAGORE when you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for y...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Where the mind is without fear
and the head is held high,
where knowledge is free.
Wh...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Let your life lightly dance on the edges of
Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside th...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Don't limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE The small wisdom is like water in a glass:
clear, transparent, pure.
The great wisdom is l...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the st...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Religion is not a fractional thing that can be doled out in fixed weekly or daily measures as one am...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE In our desire for eternal life we pray for an eternity of our habit and comfort, forgetting that imm...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE We women are weak," replied Bimala. "So I suppose we must join in the conspiracy of the weak."
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RABINDRANATH TAGORE These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Want of love is a degree of callousness; for love is the perfection of consciousness. We do not love...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE The best of us still have our aspirations for the supreme goals of life, which is so often mocked by...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE We live in this world when we love it.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE The revilement of the infinite in the finite, which is the motive of all creation, is not seen in it...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Things are distinct not in their essence but in their appearance; in other words, in their relation ...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE We can make truth ours by actively modulating its inter-relations. This is the work of art; for real...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE When the heat and motion of blind impulses and passions distract it on all sides, we can neither giv...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Let this be my last word, that I trust in your love.
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