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Med muslingeskaller og sneglehuse som symboler på forskellige stadier i livet filosoferer forfatteren over det at være kvinde og over livet i almindelighed.
I am amazed that a woman writing in 1955 could so clearly articulate my own (2022) feelings about womanhood, motherhood, creativity, spirituality, and marriage. Lindbergh's introspection into her life is like a beacon of light for the rest of us to follow as we stumble down our own murky paths. With grace, kindness and remarkable insight, she offers gentle advice on relationships, work, and parenting in a way few other authors have.
I'm so grateful a friend recommended this book to me. It was just what I needed at this -- the oyster bed -- phase of my life. ( )
A fabulous book that all women should read. I just re-read it last weekend and got so much out of it. The first time I read it, perhaps ten years ago, I also really liked it, but didn't get a lot of what she was saying because it wasn't yet relevant to my life. Its one of those books to read every 5-10 years. ( )
A thing of beauty which "has the eternal validity of all beautiful and fleeting things." It is a sincere and eloquent plea for the ineffable rights of the individual, especially the individual as a woman.
I would swap it for all the bestseller, do-good, inspirational books I have read. Here are some of the profoundest and most helpful observations and comments, expressed in the clearest language, in the warmest tone.
Though it deals with the essential needs, gifts, obligations and aspirations of woman as distinct from those of man, it is in no sense merely what is sometimes slightingly called a woman's book. A sensitive, tensile, original mind probes delicately into questions of balance and relationship in the world today, and the result is a book for human beings who are mature or in search of maturity, whether men or women.
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The Beach is not a place to work; to read, write or think.
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I want...to live "in grace" as much of the time as possible...I believe most people are aware of periods in their lives when they seem to be "in grace" and other periods when they feel "out of grace" even though they may use different words to describe these states.
There are...certain roads that one may follow. Simplification of life is one of them.
Moon shell...You will remind me that I must try to be alone for part of each year, even a week or a few days; and for part of each day, even for an hour or a few minutes in order to keep my core, my center, my island-quality.
Woman must...learn to stand alone.
In middle age...one tries to cure the signs of growth...when really they might be angels of annunciation. Angels of annunciation of what? Of a new stage of living when, having shed many of the physical struggles, the worldly ambitions, the material encumbrances of active life, one might be free to fulfill the neglected side of one's self. One might be free for growth of mind, heart, and talent; free at last for spiritual growth...
Perhaps, middle age is or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego.
Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was in nostalgia, nor forward to what it might be in dread or anticipation, but living in the present relationship and accepting it as it is now.
When you love someone you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility.
...the acquisitive instinct is incompatible with true appreciation of beauty.
Island precepts...Simplicity of living...to attain a true awareness of life. Balance of physical, intellectual, and spiritual life. Work without pressure. Space for significance and beauty. Time for solitude and sharing. Closeness to nature to strengthen understanding and faith in the intermittency of life: life of the spirit, creative life, and the life of human relationships. A few shells.
The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.
We walk up the beach in silence, but in harmony, as the sandpipers ahead of us move like a corps of ballet dancers keeping time to some interior rhythm inaudible to us.
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Med muslingeskaller og sneglehuse som symboler på forskellige stadier i livet filosoferer forfatteren over det at være kvinde og over livet i almindelighed.
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I'm so grateful a friend recommended this book to me. It was just what I needed at this -- the oyster bed -- phase of my life. (