For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
From Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness.
One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.
Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.
I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.
To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.
I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light.
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