Beach Quotes

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  The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.

  Henry Beston

  Nature, Rain, Ocean

  Henry Beston, Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (2001). “The Best of Beston: A Selection from the Natural World of Henry Beston from Cape Cod to the St. Lawrence”, p.19, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Smell the sea and feel the sky.

  Van Morrison

  Ocean, Sea, Sky

  Song: Introduction: Into the Mystic

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• At the beach - time you enjoyed wasting, is not wasted.

  T. S. Eliot

  Not Wasting Time, Enjoyed

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  Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.

  Robert Henri

  Ocean, Thinking, Sea Breeze

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Sitting on a beach or walking through nature makes me come alive always.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Sitting, Alive, Walking

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Because there's nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it's sent away.

  Sarah Kay

  Love, Inspirational, Cute

  Sarah Kay, “If I should have a daughter”

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• 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

  Ocean, Moving, Sea

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• The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.

  Kate Chopin

  Nature, Ocean, Healing

  1899 The Awakening, ch.6.

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• The sea-shore is a sort of neutral ground, a most advantageous point from which to contemplate this world. It is even a trivial place. The waves forever rolling to the land are too far-travelled and untamable to be familiar. Creeping along the endless beach amid the sun-squall and the foam, it occurs to us that we, too, are the product of sea-slime.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sea, Land, Forever

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.825, Delphi Classics

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• The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Nature, Ocean, Sea

  Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1978). “Life and death in a coral sea”

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• The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul.

  Robert Wyland

  Inspirational, Nature, Ocean

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• Independence, like honor, is a rocky island, without a beach.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Islands, Independence, Honor

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• On the beach, you can live in bliss.

  Dennis Wilson

  Ocean, Sea, Bliss

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  We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Christian, Wisdom

  Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.213, Image

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• A beach walk is for stretching your legs and your mind, for looking at life with newfound eyes.

  Sandy Gingras

  Eye, Mind, Legs

  Sandy Gingras (2010). “Walks on the Beach”, p.1, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.

  Erma Bombeck

  Vacation, Skins, Body

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• Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Sarcastic, Nature, Ocean

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.152, 谷月社

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• 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 everthing in me that is bewildered and confused.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Confused, Ocean, Sea

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910”, p.94, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I am you; you are ME. You are the waves; I am the ocean. Know this and be free, be divine.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Freedom, Ocean, Wave

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Apr 22, 2017

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• Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.

  Aristotle

  Happiness, Ocean, Positivity

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• A kiss on the beach when there is a full moon is the closest thing to heaven.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Kissing, Moon, Heaven

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• The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.

  Kate Chopin

  Nature, Ocean, Sea

  1899 The Awakening, ch.6.

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• I really only ever go on sun holidays so in my experience I prepare myself for the beach.

  Lisa Snowdon

  Holiday, Goes On, Sun

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• My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Ocean, Marine, Sea

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.189

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• To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Ocean, Sea, Solitude

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