WAVE IMPRESSIONS NOW
“Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.”
- Swami Sivananda
“Sit in reverie, and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea.”
- Nikola Tesla
“Thus one memory follows another until the waves dash together over our heads, and a deep sigh swells the breast, which warns us that we have forgotten to breathe in the midst of these pure thoughts.”
- Max Muller
"I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows."
- Drew Barrymore
“Every time I stand before a beautiful beach, its waves seem to whisper to me: If you choose the simple things and find joy in nature’s simple treasures, life and living need not be so hard.”
- Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
“When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?”
- Ralph Marston
“We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.”
- Paul Tillich
“You don’t really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around - and why his parents will always wave back.”
- William D. Tammeus
“One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.”
- Elizabeth Gilbert
“The waves of the sea help me get back to me.
- Jill Davis
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 and Where Beautiful Waves are Happening Now.
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PHOTO CREDITS:
- Photo: by mrhayata. “Illuminations Wave.”
- Photo: by Russ Seidel. “Sea of Waves.”
- Photo: by Sam Leighton. “Blue Wave.”
- Photo: by Elvin. Antelope Canyon, Arizona.
- Photo: by John Fowler. Wave Canyon.
- Photo: by James Marvin Phelps. “Fire Wave Sunset,” at Valley of Fire State Park, Overton, Nevada.
- Photo: by thaths. “A couple photographing The Wave.”
- Photo: by Howard Ignatius. “Secret Wave.”
- Photo: by Henrik Johansson. “Caught in the Headlight.”
- Photo: by Stefan Mendelsohn. “Second Wave.”
