Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.
Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.
The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.
We two have paddled in the stream, from morning sun till dine; But seas between us broad have roared since days of long ago.
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
The distinguishing property of man is to search for and to follow after truth.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is “What does a woman want?”
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
“Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions.”
“We are sun and moon, dear friend; we are sea and land. It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement.
It is more important to know what person has the disease than what disease the person has.
Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease that person has.
You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
My ancestors were Brahmins. They spent their lives in search of god. I am spending my life in search of man
“We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.
Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.
A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.
I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.
Even when I have to write a simple letter I'm scared stiff as if faced with looming seasickness.
The most beautiful thing in the world is, precisely, the conjunction of learning and inspiration. Oh, the passion for research and the joy of discovery!
We’re all on a boat and a voyage we share, we plough the great sea together.
Wanderer, your footsteps are the road, and nothing more; wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind one sees the path that never will be trod again. Wanderer, there is no road-- Only wakes upon the sea.
To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire. It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.
“It is a wonderful seasoning of all enjoyments to think of those we love.”
As fragrance abides in the flower As reflection is within the mirror, So does your Lord abide within you, Why search for him without?
“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”
Was it really my destiny, was it my fortune, I haven't met another A sea within me as shallow as a lake, And like an ocean boundless and big.
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.”
My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.
Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.
We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.
By sealing our work with our blood, we may see at least the bright dawn of universal happiness.
What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow. What are brief? today and tomorrow. What are frail? spring blossoms and youth. What are deep? the ocean and truth.
Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom.
“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
The sea shall go to the sea And both finally clean of the algae's mud
where are the waters i would cross over, without a thought— the last sea without land on the other side?
You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
Safe is the land, insecure the sea, greedy the profit
Light breaks where no sun shines; Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart push their tides.
The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.
I consider the sound of the sea to be part of my body.