Ocean: (shore...sail...sea... )

Every part of this Earth is sacred to my people. Every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every clearing and humming insect is holy in the memory and experience of my people. --- Chief Seattle

Hatred and bitterness can never cure the disease of fear; only love can do that. Hatred paralyses life; love harmonises it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it. --- Marin Luther King 1929

I can't change the direction of the wind. But I can adjust my sails --- Anon xxxx

Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny. --- Carl Schurz

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand. Anyone may gather it and no limit is set. Everyone can reach this love through meditation, spirit of prayer, and sacrifice, by an intense inner life. --- Mother Teresa Of Calcutta 1910

Man cannot discover new oceans until he has courage to lose sight of the shore. --- Anon xxxx

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the horizon of the spirit. --- Helen Keller 1880

Nothing gives us rest but the sincere search for truth. --- Blaise Pascal 1623

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. --- Andre Gide 1869

Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors. --- W Eugene Smith

Pearls lie not on the seashore. If thou desirest one thou must dive for it. --- Chinese Proverb xxxx

Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear. --- Thomas Jefferson 1743

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body. --- Oliver Wendell Holmes 1841

The happiest people seam to be those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing. --- William Inge 1860

To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease. --- Lao-Tze 604BC

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. --- Mahatma Gandhi 1869