Reaching The Ocean

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

I have always had the sea as my playground. - Alexander D. Oen

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us. - Franz Kafka

Trade unions are islands of anarchy in a sea of chaos. - Aneurin Bevan

You can't cross the sea merely by staring at the water. - Rabindranath Tagore

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein

They who dive in the sea of affliction, bring up rare pearls. - Charles H. Spurgeon

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

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

Live in the sunshine
Swim in the sea
Drink the wild air - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sharks are the lions of the sea. They glamorize the oceanic glory. - Munia Khan

If you don't become the ocean you'll be seasick every day. - Leonard Cohen

Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years. - Sheila Ballantyne

The biggest sin in the world would be if I lost my love for the ocean. - Laird Hamilton

Our separation from each other is an optical illusion of consciousness. - Albert Einstein

An entire ocean can't sink a ship unless it allows the water inside. - Donna Smith

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

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

Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure. - Ross MacDonald

Let me be an ocean and let me kiss you as many times as the ocean kisses the shore. - Debasish Mridha

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. - Muhammad Ali

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

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

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. - Daniel J. Boorstin

I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight. - Mark Twain

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

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

We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean. - Anna Freud

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. - Jorge Luis Borges

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. - John Updike

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. - Simone Weil

Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them. - Carl Schurz

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. - Milton Friedman

Sea spaghetti looks like dark fettuccine and has a similar texture - you can get it in health food stores or online. - Yotam Ottolenghi

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of the missing drop. - Mother Teresa

It's better to swim in the sea below
Than to swing in the air and feed the crow,
Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol. - Benjamin Franklin

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

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

I'll paddle board, swim in the ocean, roll in the sand, soak up the sun, eat good food, be with friends and family and go fishing with my dad. - Behati Prinsloo