Quotes: Tides

Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement – and we will make the goal.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

I have a temper on me that could hold back tides.

To act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the tides. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other.

Sunrise offered a very beautiful spectacle; the water was quite unruffled, but the motion communicated by the tides was so great that, although there was not a breath of air stirring, the sea heaved slowly with a grand and majestic motion.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Life is a little like a message in a bottle, to be carried by the winds and the tides.

Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.

Dead fish don’t swim around in jealous tides.

Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.