Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes About Beach

Quotes about: Beach

• 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.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Beautiful, Beach, Shells

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1967). “SELECTIONS FROM GIFT FROM THE SEA”

• 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.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Patience, Beach, Nature

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1975). “GIFT FROM THE SEA”

• The beach is not the place to work; to read, write or think.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Beach, Writing, Thinking

  "Gift from the Sea".

• One learns first of all in beach living the art of shedding; how little one can get along with, not how much.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Beach, Art, Ocean

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2002). “Wisdom from Gift from the Sea”, p.11, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

• Go with the pain, let it take you. Open your palms and your body to the pain. It comes in waves like the tide and you must be open as a vessel lying on the beach, letting it fill you up and then, retreating, leaving you empty and clear.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Beach, Pain, Lying

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1981). “War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944”, Berkley

• Perhaps this is the most important thing for me to take back from beach-living: simply the memory that each cycle of the tide is valid; each cycle of the wave is valid; each cycle of a relationship is valid.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Beach, Memories, Important

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2002). “Wisdom from Gift from the Sea”, p.62, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

• We walk up the beach under the stars. And when we are tired of walking, we lie flat on the sand under a bowl of stars. We feel stretched, expanded to take in their compass. They pour into us until we are filled with stars, up to the brim.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Beach, Stars, Lying

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2010). “Gift from the Sea”, p.99, Random House

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