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One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if...
I understand why the saints were rarely married women. It has primarily to do with distractions . . . Woman's normal...
We tend not to choose the unknown, which might be a shock or a disappointment or simply a little difficult to cope...
Only when a tree has fallen can you take a measure of it. It is the same with a man.
If one talks to more than four people it is an audience, and one cannot really think or exchange thoughts with an...
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone...
If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those...
I believe that what women resent is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself...
It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.
Source: Gift From the Sea,...
The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open,...
When one is out of touch with oneself, one cannot touch others.
Source: Gift From...
One can get just as much exultation in losing oneself in a little thing as in a big thing. It is nice to think how...
Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material...
There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier...
When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.
Source: In...
The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's...
Love is a force. It is not a result; it is a cause. It is not a product; it produces. It is a power, like money or...
There is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.
The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.
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