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• "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."

• "There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas."

• "The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it."

• "The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now."

• "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."

• "The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words."

• "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."

• "Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces."

• "If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments."

• "I feel we are all islands - in a common sea."

• "I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable."

• "Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after."

• "For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair."

• "Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood."

• "Don't wish me happiness-I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor-I will need them all."

• "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."

• "After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood."

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