kimmyridley:
“A fragrant breeze wandered up from the quiet sea, trailed along the beach, and drifted back to the sea again, wondering where to go next. On a mad impulse it went up to the beach again. It drifted back to sea.” D. Adams
kimmyridley:
“I have always been fascinated by the ocean, to dip a limb beneath its surface and know that I'm touching eternity, that it goes on forever until it begins here again.” - L. DeStefano
kimmyridley:
“Slowly, Anna put up a hand to his muzzle and began to scratch that spot behind the ear where large dogs keep their souls.” - E. Ibbotson
kimmyridley:
“Whenever the sun is shining, I feel obligated to play outside!” - C. M. Schulz
kimmyridley:
“It was a beautiful summer afternoon, at that delicious period of the year when summer has just burst forth from the growth of spring.” - A. Trollope
kimmyridley:
“In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.” - R. Carson
kimmyridley:
=Zenith= & *The Mystic* Photo Contest Jun 2017 AlluringKimmy “I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.” J. Austen
kimmyridley:
“I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.” - N. Kazantzakis
kimmyridley:
“So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea.” - V. Woolf
kimmyridley:
"She holds the heat, the breeze of summer in the circle of her hand. I’d be happy with this summer if it’s all we ever had.” M. Stiefvater
kimmyridley:
"There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart." — C. Thaxter
kimmyridley:
"Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon." - C. D Lewis
kimmyridley:
“Fairy tales were not my escape from reality as a child; rather, they were my reality..." T Windling
kimmyridley:
“Sometimes i don't know, which moment, which cool gust of wind will come, and enchant me tousling my hair and my heart..." - S. Khan
kimmyridley:
“Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day.” - C. Bronte
kimmyridley:
“To say it was a beautiful day would not begin to explain it. It was that day when the end of summer intersects perfectly with the start of fall.”- A. Patchett
kimmyridley:
“I do love the beginning of the summer hols,' said Julian. They always seem to stretch out ahead for ages and ages.' 'They go so nice and slowly at first,' said Anne, his little sister. 'Then they start to gallop.” - E. Blyton
kimmyridley:
“My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me.” -Henry Longfellow
kimmyridley:
“I was smiling yesterday,I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow.Simply because life is too short to cry for anything.” ― Santosh Kalwar
kimmyridley:
"In every out thrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth."—Rachel Carson
kimmyridley:
"Nothing quite prepares you for the sight of half a dozen pigs swimming in the clear blue ocean."
kimmyridley:
Off On Holiday
kimmyridley:
“Destroy the idea that you have to be constantly working or grinding in order to be successful. Embrace the concept that rest, recovery, and reflection are essential parts of the progress towards a successful and ultimately happy life.”
kimmyridley:
“It's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine ... it's summertime!” ― Kenny Chesney
kimmyridley:
“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realizes an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.” ― Virginia Woolf
kimmyridley:
“Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is happening...It would never occur to us, unless we stumbled on a book or a person who explained to us, that we were in fact in the process of change, of actually becom
kimmyridley:
“You live most of your life inside your head. Make sure it’s a nice place to be.” —Unknown
kimmyridley:
“You gotta know when to be lazy. Done correctly, it's an art form that benefits everyone. " - Nicholas Sparks
kimmyridley:
"Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language." - Henry James
kimmyridley:
“Currents of cigarette fumes wafted through what passed for air. Attractive young women in bright-hued gowns glided through the streams of smoke, like tropical fish in an aquarium. Detecting the white uniforms and leathery faces, they promptly approached
