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I was happiest between the waves.

Gertrude Ederle

Gertrude Ederle

Gertrude Ederle

American Athlete

Born: Oct 23, 1905

Died: Nov 30, 2003

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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. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering. Saint Augustine

I think faith is incredibly important because you will become overwhelmed with what's happening and you will have waves of grief, but when you turn to your faith, I believe God will give you waves of grace to get through it. Joel Osteen

You have to think of your career the way you look at the ocean, deciding which wave you're gonna take and which waves you're not gonna take. Some of the waves are going to be big, some are gonna be small, sometimes the sea is going to be calm. Your career is not going to be one steady march upward to glory. Alan Arkin

You Sometimes Big Calm Ocean Think Wave Waves Way Some Steady Small Take Look Glory Going Deciding Upward Which Gonna Your Sea March Career

When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park? Ralph Marston

Time You Wind Looking Nothing Tree Waves Spent Park Limbs Doing Quiet Blowing Sitting Candle Just Children Pond Sea Flickering Moment Last Watching Playing Last Time

The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea. Nikola Tesla

Human Being Control Waves Though Willful Tossed About Entirely He Like Within Without Governed His Human Being Influences Predetermined Turbulent Sea Actions Appear Float External

I love the smell of rain, and I love the sound of the ocean waves. Amy Purdy

Love Rain Smell Ocean Waves Sound

When you grow up by the sea, you spend a good deal of time looking at the horizon. You wonder what on Earth the waves might bring - and where the sea might deposit you - until one day you know you have lived between two places, the scene of arrival and the point of departure. Andrew O'Hagan

Time Good Day You Looking Spend Waves Earth One Day Horizon Scene Point Between Know Until Deal Arrival Up Wonder Departure Where Deposit Places Might Sea Good Deal Grow Grow Up Lived Bring Two

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