Best Ocean Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“[T]hen all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.”

“Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be.”

“I have always wanted to give you the world, so I started giving you pieces of the oceans that kept us apart.”

“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”

“Stop trying to be less of who you are. Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back.”

“To stand upon the shore and wait, without expectation, is to open oneself to the profound gifts that only time can bestow. In the patience of waiting, we find the deeper currents of grace that flow through the heart.”

“I feel a resurgence of my 6-year-old self… that little warrior, goddess of a girl reminding me of who I was when I was little, before the world got its hands on me.”

“I’m going to follow this invisible red thread until I find myself again… until I finally figure out… who I’m meant to be.”

“I know that this process of ‘me changing my life’ doesn’t just end once I set fire to this list of things I hate about myself. Tonight isn’t as much of a new beginning as it is a violent end and I know the real work hasn’t even started yet.”

“I fantasize the night sky to be like a cosmic blue print of my life as I close my eyes and unbutton my heart…. just in case anyone up there is listening.”

“Something, somewhere, knows what’s best for me and promises to keep sending me people and experiences to light my way as long as I live in gratitude and keep paying attention to the signs.”

“I’ve grown up defined by this desperate, undeniable, ‘can’t breathe’ kind of space inside of myself and I’m afraid that the diagnosis is fatal.”

“I know that your soul is on life support and that you feel lost and like you’re completely spinning out of control, but you’re finding yourself — here, tonight… even in this darkness.”

“Your personal truth is your gift to the world.”

“Odvedli jsme tak dobrou práci s vyprávěním příběhů o zániku a pádu, že si mnozí z nás dovedou velice snadno představit budoucí oceán s vybělenými útesy, želvy zadušené plastem, splaškové skvrny, hejna medúz a města duchů v místech někdejších rybářských vesnic plných života. Stejně důležité odteď budou naše příběhy o zlepšeních, naději a hrdinech, neboť nám ukážou, kdo jsme a kým máme ještě čas se stát.”

“If ever I was running, it was towards you.”

“I love him in ways that I can’t explain to other people. They don’t understand… it’s not their fault.”

“I really believe that there is an invisible red thread tied between him and me, and that it has stretched and tangled for years — across oceans and lifetimes. I know that it won’t break because our souls are tied.”

“I just want your voice aimed at me again. I want to absorb the direction of your eyes…”

“I want to be the best version of myself for anyone who is going to someday walk into my life and need someone to love them beyond reason.”

“Everything hurts right now and nothing is helping because as the pain is getting worse — so is the love.”

“I want you to trust yourself, baby. Love is all that matters and you’ve always known that. You’ve known, since you were a very little girl, what your life is meant to be about…”

“I’ve always seen this in you, ever since you were a little girl — this hunger to love other people into their highest selves and it’s what has made me irreversibly and just so forever in love with you.”

“Please… Whoever you are, whatever you are… I believe in you even though I don’t completely understand you. I feel you around me even though I can’t exactly describe what I’m feeling. Sometimes things happen to me and I know that you’re there and I’m humbled by the lack of coincidence that exists in the world. Whatever you want from me, it’s yours — just please help me. You know how I get when I lose control, and I find myself constantly being pulled back there these days.”

“Does our purpose on Earth directly link to the people whom we end up meeting? Are our relationships and experiences actually the required dots that connect and then lead us to our ultimate destinies?”

“I was happy anywhere I could see the ocean.”

“We are all of life”

“It is almost startling to hear this warning of departed time sounding among the tombs, and telling the lapse of the hour, which, like a billow, has rolled us onward towards the grave.”

“Tell her this”

“I thought of you and how you love this beauty,”

“I looked upon the sea, it was to be my grave”

“Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down,”

“Wildflowers can't be controlled, and neither can the girl with a soul boundless as the sky, and a spirit as free and wild as the ocean.”

“But the sea”

“The sea is a desert of waves,”

“All shadows of clouds the sun cannot hide”

“Maybe I’m still the mermaid.”

“She was a wild ocean. And he had always seen people giving up while trying to swim in her and swim back to the shore before they could drown. He always hesitated about that adventure. He was scared of failing to swim, and drowning to death. But he was never able to stop thinking about how the adventure could end up. He finally made his mind up and started swimming. And eventually, he gave up against the waves and the storms she created and he began to drown. But the moment he stopped fighting to survive, she slowly embraced him inside her arms. And he began to realise that everything was very different than what he had always imagined. He could feel every breath he took there, better than any place he had ever lived. She was splendid and he never felt like swimming away from her arms ever.”

“I could watch him do this until morning — never asking questions and never interrupting his work. I worship quietly — his intense focus and attention to detail and then, out of no where, I realize the inconvenient, inappropriate truth: ‘I love this man… and it has swallowed me.”

“At beyond continent of reality,”

“Sand lines my soul which is filled with the breath of the ocean.”

“Dreams are like the old stories where wolves are seekers always running, and women carry fire in their bare hands and light the dark paths before them.”

“Knowledge is knowing the depth of the ocean. Wisdom is knowing till where to swim.”

“My mother always wanted to live near the water," she said. "She said it's the one thing that brings us all together. That I can have my toe in the ocean off the coast of Maine, and a girl my age can have her toe in the ocean off the coast of Africa, and we would be touching. On opposite sides of the world.”

“The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof.”

“Owning land is like owning the ocean, or the air. no one owns land.”

“I am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides.”

“Mist to mist, drops to drops. For water thou art, and unto water shalt thou return.”

“No dirt can touch me, like an ocean, everything that comes to me becomes clean.”