PLAYING WITH WAVES

“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

“Life is like the ocean. You can either be the ball floating on the waves, or make your own waves.”

- Oliver Gaspirtz

“Have you considered that if you don't make waves, nobody including yourself will know that you are alive?”

- Theodore Isaac Rubin

“Each of us must spread the waves of love and peace and create an atmosphere through our thoughts, our words and interactions with others.”

- Senora Roy

“As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.”

- Jeanne Moreau

“Life is a lot like surfing… When you get caught in the impact zone, you’ve got to just get back up. Because you never know what may be over the next wave.”

- Bethany Hamilton

“Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going around me.”

- Albert Schweitzer

“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

“Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow’s joy is possible only if today’s makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.”

- Andre Gide

“Have faith in yourself. When you have no faith in the wave, how can you get faith in the ocean?”

- Sri Sathya Sai Baba

“Speaking kind words starts a wave of love in motion that brings more love upon your shores.”

- Molly Friedenfel

Read more about Beautiful Waves, as they relate to Arts/Design, Nature/Science, Food/Drink, Place/Time, Mind/Body, and Soul/Impact, including Chromatic Waves Now, A Universe of Waves Now, Amber Waves Now, Art Waves Now, Where Beautiful Waves are Happening Now and Wave Impressions Now.

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PHOTO CREDITS:

1. Photo: by Gilles Guarez. “Playing with the Waves.”
2. Photo: by Henrie Tsai. “Waves.”
3. Photo: by Berit Watkin. “Playing in the Water.”
4. Photo: by Mo Riza. “Square Splash.”
5. Photo: by David Robertson. “Explosion.”
6. Photo: by The Q Speaks. “Charing Out.”
7. Photo: by MudflapDC. “Katy in the Surf.”
8. Photo: by The Hamster Factor. “Waters Edge.”
9. Photo: by Damian Gadal. “In the Waves.”
10. Photo: by James Loesch. Surfer in Waves.
11. Photo: by Evan Blaser. Farewell Wave.