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Castles in Spain (Chateaux en Espagne) by Alexander Harrison, 1882

Rocks in my path? I keep them all. With them I shall build my castle. — Nemo Nox

“If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.”

— Zen Proverb

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Morning at the Shore painted by Mabel Alvarez, 1966

What I wouldn’t give right now to wiggle my toes in some cool, white sand, to hear the soothing whoosh of the waves upon the beach… — Mary Engelbreit

Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life 

Dreams and Sandcastles painted by Sue Fletcher

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photography by Ronen Goldman

All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk. — Lemony Snicket

Beach Scene, New London painted by William Glackens, 1918

On these magic shores children at play are for ever beaching their coracles. We too have been there; we can still hear the sound of the surf, though we shall land no more. — J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan

Dünen und Windflüchter am Weststrand (Dunes and wind-bent trees at the western beach) painted by Paul Müller-Kaempff 

Then take me disappearin’ through the smoke rings of my mind, 
Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves, 
The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach, 
Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow. 

Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, 
Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands, 
With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves, 
Let me forget about today until tomorrow.

— Bob Dylan

“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

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Cats painted by  Tokuhiro Kawai 

Never try to out stubborn a cat – Robert Heinlein, The Notebook of Lazarus Long