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Being at the beach is one of the simple joys of life  

• Every time I stand before a beautiful beach, its waves seem to whisper to me: If you choose the simple things and find joy in nature’s simple treasures, life and living need not be so hard.  Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
• When I walk down the beach and smell the salt water, hear the waves crashing against the shoreline, and feel the granular sand under my feet, I can’t help but realize why I’m here on this green earth. Wendy Joubert
• Happiness is a summer breeze, sand between your toes, and your best friend by your side. Rachel
• The ocean, Nature,  Simple living,   Simple joys

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The beach provides a wonderful excuse for doing nothing  

• Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does. John Kenneth Galbraith
• The beach is not a place to work; to read, write or to think. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
• …vicinity to the sea is desirable, because it is easier to do nothing by the sea than anywhere else, and because bathing and basking on the shore cannot be considered an employment but only an apotheosis of loafing. F. Benson
• Idleness, 

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The beach renews the spirit  

• There’s nothing like a walk in the forest to clear my mind and get my spirit to calm down and slow down. Any time I get away from the mass of people and find a quiet, solitary spot in nature, be it in the middle of the desert, in the forest, on a beach, or even along a lonely country road, I feel myself being refreshed, revived, renewed.  It’s a wonderful feeling that I don’t search out nearly enough.  Tom Walsh
• It’s hard for me to put into words why I like the beach so much. Everything about it is renewing for me, almost like therapy… Beach Therapy.  Amy Dykens
• I find myself at the extremity of a long beach. How gladly does the spirit leap forth, and suddenly enlarge its sense of being to the full extent of the broad, blue, sunny deep!  A greeting and a homage to the Sea!  I descend over its margin, and dip my hand into the wave that meets me, and bathe my brow.  That far-resounding roar is the Ocean’s voice of welcome.  His salt breath brings a blessing along with it.  Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Rest and renewal,  The soul

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The beach lets us shed clothes and cares  

• Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.  Loren Eiseley
• Inner peace,  Calmness

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The beach teaches us the delight of non-materialism  

• After a visit to the beach, it’s hard to believe that we live in a material world. Pam Shaw
• 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
• Materialism

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The beach is a great place to think and get creative ideas  

• Much of the best thinking is done alone- -in deserts, on beaches, in bed, behind closed doors. It is why we say we need to get away–to escape from clutter and busyness–to hear ourselves think.  Robert Fulghum
• Good ideas and creativity usually do not appear under stress. When you are relaxed and rejuvenated, creative ideas usually come rather naturally. Take a walk on the beach, take a nap, go and play some sport or do whatever it is that relaxes you so that your brain can be more creative when you get back to work.  Diann Daniel  
• Although I have a regular work schedule, I take time to go for long walks on the beach so that I can listen to what is going on inside my head. Albert Einstein
• So that the monotonous fall of the waves on the beach, which for the most part beat a measured and soothing tattoo to her thoughts seemed consolingly to repeat over and over again… Virginia Woolf
• Creativity,  Creative thinking

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No one loves the beach more than children  

• Play in the sand; splash in the water; get dirty; get wet. The beach is the only place my mom doesn’t get mad about me doing that stuff. Of course, I love the beach!  Dixie Dykens (age 5)
• Don’t grow up too quickly, lest you forget how much you love the beach. Michelle Held
• I honestly think the beach is the only place children actually entertain themselves. Donna McLavy
• Childhood

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Appreciate and enjoy the beach  

• The world has enough beautiful mountains and meadows, spectacular skies and serene lakes. It has enough lush forests, flowered fields and sandy beaches. It has plenty of stars and the promise of a new sunrise and sunset every day. What the world needs more of is people to appreciate and enjoy it. Michael Josephson
• If one could only learn to appreciate the little things … A song that takes you away, for there are those who cannot hear. The beauty of a sunset, for there are those who cannot see. The warmth and safety of your home, for there are those who are homeless. Time spent with good friends for there are those who are lonely. A walk along the beach for there are those who cannot walk. The little things are what life is all about. Search your soul and learn to appreciate. Shadi Souferian  
• Appreciation,  Enjoyment

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Walk for miles along the shore  

• I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me. Anna Quindlen
• I want to run the beach’s length, because it never ends. Deborah Ager
• Walking,  Exercise

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Listen to sound of the ocean surging up the beach  

• 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
• My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening. Rabindranath Tagore
• Listening

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Embrace the solitude of an empty beach  

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

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Collect shells at the 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

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The beach provides several metaphors for life  

• Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster. Cyril Connolly
• Writers begin with a grain of sand, and then create a beach. Robert Black
• Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. K. Chesterton
• 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
• Seek out lovely memories, feelings, or ideas. Hunt for beauty like a child looking for seashells on a bountiful beach. Be open to things outside the frame of “nice” or “pretty.” Let yourself be surprised. Find beauty in unexpected places. Rick Hanson
• Honour is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return. Nicholas Boileau
• To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me. Sir Isaac Newton
• Metaphors to live by

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• A real friend is someone who takes a winter vacation on a sun-drenched beach and does not send a card. Farmer’s Almanac
• Babies don’t need a vacation, but I still see them at the beach… it pisses me off! I’ll go over to a little baby and say ‘What are you doing here? You haven’t worked a day in your life!’ Steven Wright
• Desert combat? I can’t even stand the walk back from the beach to the car.   Paul Gilmartin
• During the summer, I like to go to the beach and make sand castles out of cement, and wait for kids to run by and try to kick them over. James LeemerSr.
• How do men exercise on the beach? By sucking in their stomachs every time they see a bikini.
• I could tell by their audible gasps that the people on the beach were jealous of me when I found five shark’s teeth. Locating them wasn’t really the problem, but pulling them out of my leg was. Jarod Kintz
• I got an award for bravery on the beach. I saved a young girl from a lifeguard.
• I hate the beach. I hate the sun. I’m pale and I’m redheaded. I don’t tan – I stroke!   Woody Allen
• I have a large seashell collection which I keep scattered on beaches all over the world.  Steven Wright
• Intellectual: A guy who can keep his mind on a book at a beach.
• Life without chocolate is like a beach without water.
• On the beach, he slapped me on the back and asked me how I was peeling.
• Peter Marshall: You are standing among the oldest living things on Earth. Where are you? Totie Fields: Miami Beach.  Totie Fields
• She is so fat… she laid on the beach and people tried to push her back into the ocean.
• There is nothing so unbecoming on the beach as a wet kilt.
• Went to the beach today; I could feel the women just dressing me with their eyes.  Bob Nickman
• When I pick up a handful of sand at the beach and let it dribble through my fingers I think Man this is not a very good vacation.  Jack Handey

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