Inspirational Quotes About The Beach

Is it any wonder there are so many wonderful inspirational quotes about the beach? Being next to the ocean can be a million different experiences and stir just as many emotions.

The sea can be bright and beautiful, dark and foreboding, calm and peaceful, raging and threatening. At different times you might stand on the beach and feel soothed, energized, relaxed, inspired, empowered, enlightened, free from everything, connected to everything.

Wherever you are today, let these inspiring beach quotes wash over you as surely as if you were standing at the water’s edge with water gently swirling around your feet. If you love being at the beach as much as I do, you’ll recognize yourself in some of these quotes, or in all of them at one time or another.

Inspirational Beach Quotes

• “In still moments by the sea life seems large-drawn and simple. It is there we can see into ourselves.” ~ Rolf Edberg
• “If you have been brutally broken but still have the courage to be gentle to others then you deserve a love deeper than the ocean itself.” ~ Nikita Gill
• “We can’t direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.” ~ Thomas S. Monson

• “We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.” ~ William James
• “The mind is like water. When it’s turbulent, it’s difficult to see. When it’s calm, everything becomes clear.” ~ Prasad Mahes
• “Be like the ocean … Breathtaking to look at, strong enough to not be destroyed, and gentle enough so others find comfort in your presence.” ~ C. W. Brooke

• “To some it’s just water. To me it’s where I regain my sanity.” ~ Unknown
• “The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.” ~ Cyril Connolly
• “Let the waves carry you where the light can not.” ~ Mohit Kaushik

• “Sometimes in the waves of change, we find our true direction.” ~ Unknown
• “Smell the sea, and feel the sky, let your soul and spirits fly.” ~ Van Morrison
• “She loved the sea. She liked the sharp salty smell of the air, and the vastness of the horizons bounded only by a vault of azure sky above. It made her feel small, but free as well.” ~ George R. R. Martin

• “Once the sea has touched your soul, life on land will never be the same.” ~ Unknown
• “If everyone could just live near the ocean, I think we’d all be happier. It’s hard to be down about anything knee deep in the sand.” ~ Crystal Woods
• “At the beach, life is different. Time doesn’t move hour to hour but mood to moment. We live by the currents, plan by the tides and follow the sun.” ~ Sandy Gingras

• “Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
• “Dance with the waves, move with the sea, let the rhythm of the water set your soul free.” ~ Christy Ann Martine
• “A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.” ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

• “You are not a drop in the ocean; you are the entire ocean in a drop.” ~ Rumi
• “You’re like the ocean…Pretty enough on the surface, but dive down into your depths, you’ll find beauty most people never see.” ~ Ellen Hopkins
• “After a visit to the beach, it’s hard to believe that we live in a material world.” ~ Pam Shaw

• “God’s love is like an ocean; you can see its beginning, but not its end.” ~ Rick Warren
• “Once your feet have touched the warm sun-drenched sand of the seashore, you will never, ever be the same.” ~ Patsy Grant
• “Feelings are much like waves: we can’t stop them from coming, but we can choose which one to surf.” ~ Jonatan Mårtensson

• “A day at the beach is never lost time. When the warm grains of sand touch our hearts, we know we’re in the right place.” ~ Unknown
• “She beats to the beauty of her wildflower heart and seashore soul.” ~ Angie Welland-Crosby
• “Memory is a child walking along a seashore. You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things.” ~ Pierce Harris
• “Enlightenment is when a wave realizes it is the ocean.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

• “When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everything in me that is bewildered and confused.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
• “To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.” ~ Jeanne Moreau
• “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

• “Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• “The ocean calms my restless soul.” ~ Unknown
• “Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.” ~ Joseph Campbell

• “Listen to the sound of the waves within you.” ~ Rumi
• “For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), it’s always our self we find in the sea.” ~ E. E. Cummings
• “The wave does not need to die to become water. She is already water.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

• “Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.” ~ Ovid
• “The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul.” ~ Robert Wyland

• “Follow the river and you will find the sea.” ~ French Proverb
• “If the ocean can calm itself, so can you. We are both salt water mixed with air.” ~ Nayyirah Waheed
• “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.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

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