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In this inimitable, beloved classic—graceful, lucid and lyrical—Anne Morrow Lindbergh shares her meditations on youth and age; love and marriage; peace, solitude and contentment as she set them down during a brief vacation by the sea. Drawing inspiration from the shells on the shore, Lindbergh’s musings on the shape of a woman’s life bring new understanding to both men and...more In this inimitable, beloved classic—graceful, lucid and lyrical—Anne Morrow Lindbergh shares her meditations on youth and age; love and marriage; peace, solitude and contentment as she set them down during a brief vacation by the sea. Drawing inspiration from the shells on the shore, Lindbergh’s musings on the shape of a woman’s life bring new understanding to both men and women at any stage of life. A mother of five, an acclaimed writer and a pioneering aviator, Lindbergh casts an unsentimental eye on the trappings of modernity that threaten to overwhelm us: the time-saving gadgets that complicate rather than simplify, the multiple commitments that take us from our families. And by recording her thoughts during a brief escape from everyday demands, she helps readers find a space for contemplation and creativity within their own lives.

With great wisdom and insight Lindbergh describes the shifting shapes of relationships and marriage, presenting a vision of life as it is lived in an enduring and evolving partnership. A groundbreaking, best-selling work when it was originally published in 1955, Gift from the Sea continues to be discovered by new generations of readers. With a new introduction by Lindbergh’s daughter Reeve, this fiftieth-anniversary edition will give those who are revisiting the book and those who are coming upon it for the first time fresh insight into the life of this remarkable woman.

The sea and the beach are elements that have been woven throughout Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s life. She spent her childhood summers with her family on a Maine island. After her marriage to Charles Lindbergh in 1929, she accompanied him on his survey flights around the North Atlantic to launch the first transoceanic airlines. The Lindberghs eventually established a permanent home on the Connecticut coast, where they lived quietly, wrote books and raised their family.

After the children left home for lives of their own, the Lindberghs traveled extensively to Africa and the Pacific for environmental research. For several years they lived on the island of Maui in Hawaii, where Charles Lindbergh died in 1974.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh spent her final years in her Connecticut home, continuing her writing projects and enjoying visits from her children and grand-children. She died on February 7, 2001, at the age of ninety-four.

Reeve Lindbergh is the author of many books for both adults and children, including the memoirs Under a Wing and No More Words.(less)

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Published January 30th 1991 by Vintage (first published 1955)

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Jun 19, 2007 Rachael rated it 5 of 5 stars

This is one of those books that really will change your life, and it's one that absolutely should.

Lindberg (the wife of Charles Lindberg) explores the necessity of not only looking inward, but of focusing on one's development in order to fully live as a person, a woman, a mother, and a wife. She is especially potent when discussing the necessity of occasional moments of solitude in order to realign one's priorities and give freedom to creative expression, rather than running oneself ragged with...more

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Feb 28, 2008 Kristin rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I absolutely LOVE this book!! I highly highly recommend it. It is the perfect gift to give a friend/sister/mother or to buy for yourself to read and re-read. It is also a really quick read which is a nice little bonus. If you want a really professional review read Lucy's. (I really think Lucy should become a book critic). But here's what I thought about it...this was my second time reading the book. The first time I read it I was around 18 and getting ready to leave for college. My mom had read...more I absolutely LOVE this book!! I highly highly recommend it. It is the perfect gift to give a friend/sister/mother or to buy for yourself to read and re-read. It is also a really quick read which is a nice little bonus. If you want a really professional review read Lucy's. (I really think Lucy should become a book critic). But here's what I thought about it...this was my second time reading the book. The first time I read it I was around 18 and getting ready to leave for college. My mom had read it and really liked it and had suggested I read it. (She has always had two copies of this book...one she kept at home and one she kept at her office). I read it and liked it and even took notes and wrote down favorite quotes from it. (I actually found my old franklin planner and the notes that I took...it was really fun to read). When I read it at 18 my parents were in the process of getting divorced, my family was moving from Kansas City to Houston, and I was getting ready to leave for BYU. Most of the quotes I wrote down were about separation.

"Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without which I shall be unable to function. And yet, once it is done...life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid and fuller than before" Anne Morrow Lindbergh.

I also had a few that I wrote down about trying to figure out who I was and how I mattered to the world.

"...When one is a stranger to one's self then one is a estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others". Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I remember crying on my bed, while reading the book, thinking...Anne Morrow Lindbergh really GETS me. Reading it again at 34 it was a like a whole different book and this time I was laughing reading it thinking...Anne Morrow Lindbergh really GETS me.

She compares the different phases of a woman's life to different sea shells. I loved the analogy of the oyster shell. That would be the married/raising a family stage. She describes it as very ordinary looking...rather lumpy...embedded on a rock...with things attached to it. She talks about how it reminded her of a house full of children, toys and bikes everywhere, with friends spilling out, noisy, messy and chaotic. That sounds so familiar!! She talks about how women's lives are so full of responsibilities, meals to be made, housecleaning, kids to be taken care of, pets, hobbies, friends, children's friends, activities, children's activities, committees and husbands that women rarely take any time for themselves to be renewed. So that quote that I wrote down when I was 18 about being a stranger to one's self means something totally different at 34.

I also really liked how she described the different stages of marriage. My favorite quote from this read-through was:

"Love isn't gazing at each other...it is standing side by side and looking in the same direction"

I think this book has had such appeal and longevity because it is full of universal truths. We, women, are more alike than we are different and that it even transcends time and generations. I can't wait to read the book when I'm 50 and again at 80 and see if Anne Morrow Lindbergh still GETS me...somehow I think she will.(less)

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Apr 25, 2011 Rachel Wagner rated it 5 of 5 stars

Just finished again. How I love this book. I can relate to her emotions in leaving the island to a time in my life when an island rescued me in the same way.
I love how she talks about love, change, solitude, community, femininity and freedom. They are the words I would use if I was as eloquent.
Some favorites-
“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, patienc...more Just finished again. How I love this book. I can relate to her emotions in leaving the island to a time in my life when an island rescued me in the same way.
I love how she talks about love, change, solitude, community, femininity and freedom. They are the words I would use if I was as eloquent.
Some favorites-
“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.”

"I have found the most exhausting thing in life is being insincere"

“No man is an island,' said John Donne. I feel we are all islands -- in a common sea.”

There is nothing more important in life than being honest about who you are and who you are to the world, especially those you claim to love. She describes my heart on such things perfectly.

Now, I have recently found out of the imperfections in her life and marriage but it has no effect on my love for the book. Truth is truth and poetry is poetry. The sea has magic no matter human frailties.

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I devoured this book in one day. I love it so much. With all the turmoil in my life I can't overstate how much I related to Anne's search for inner peace. Its amazing how a housewife and author from the 1950s could speak to me, a modern single girl of 2011.
I felt like she was talking to me when she says, "What a circus act we women perform. We put the trapeze artist to shame. Look at us. We run a tight rope daily".
I think the hardest thing in life to achieve is balance. One part of my life seems to always be ruling another. Anne teaches that we can remain at peace in our hearts while the world swirls around us. I love her messages of finding moments of solitude and not holding back on life- daring to live the fullest life we can.
I loved all of her metaphors with the sea and how life should be a simple as a hermit crab finding a shell- finding a perfect home. Our hearts should be at home just as the tide is at home with the sand.
I don't feel I can do it justice. It just spoke to me today, and I loved it. Everyone should read it. (less)

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Feb 28, 2008 Joel rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Recommended to Joel by: Eugene Peterson

I love walking around a bookstore and picking up five or six books of varying genres that catch my eye, sitting down and skimming. If I'm interested I may read a chapter or two, a dozen poems, maybe even ponder buying it before I put them all back on the shelf. This was number four in a stack of nine that I picked up today at Borders. After skimming the introduction, I flipped to the first chapter... forty-five minutes later I had left the store to get a pen from my car and had picked up three n...more

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Aug 26, 2008 Sandy T rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: classics, 2008, 5-star-reads

I remember reading this at BYU for a class and having to do a paper on it. I remember wondering what all the hoopla was about it... it just didn't do all that much for me. But now, some 30+ years later, it had a whole new meaning for me as I truly understood and felt exactly what she was expressing...
It is amazing that though this book was written over 50 years ago, so many of her observations still ring true today, and I found myself marking up page after page. Perhaps the most I got from it wa...more

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Jul 10, 2008 Linda rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: early-a-m, by-the-sea, favorites-over-the-years

I'm sure I read Gift from the Sea at least 30 years ago and have probably bought and given away as many as thirty copies over the years. Gift from the Sea is one of those books that speaks to a person differently through different stages of one's life. I love it and think every woman should read it. I have since read other books (memoirs, diaries, letter of sorts) by Anne M. Lindbergh and have enjoyed them very much. I was happy to come across the 50th anniversary edition as a gift to myself.

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Jul 25, 2008 Inder rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: philosophyspirituality, memoir, read-2008

Okay, my favorite part of this book was the afterwards, wherein Ms. Lindbergh acknowledges just how dated the book's appraisal of feminism was (the book was written in 1955, so you can't blame her for what she didn't know was right around the corner - still, her somewhat negative appraisal bugged me and I was relieved that she acknowledged its problems). She also hints at how difficult it is to follow her type of super-zen advice in real life.

I hate to say it, because so many women just L.O.V.E....more

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Jan 24, 2012 Lisa Kay rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: theme-inspirational-msg, 2012-in-2012-group-challenge, reviewed-by-me, authors-a, authors-l, authors-m, zzcover-blue-green

★★★★★I loved this book. My mom gave it to me as a gift when I was a teen and I've read it a couple of times. Still relevant today. Beautifully read by Claudette Colbert.

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Jul 29, 2012 Mark Mortensen rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: spirituality, nature

The title of this book “Gift from the Sea”, shelved in the classic section, caught my immediate attention as I love the sea and then my eye noticed the author, Anne Morrow Lindbergh. The wife, who lived in the shadows of famed aviator Charles Lindberg, lost her first born to abduction, was an English major at Smith College and became a well accomplished person in her own right. I was further drawn to understand the sea’s gift.

The beach along the sea is a calm location to pause and reflect upon...more

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Mar 14, 2013 Juanita rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: not-my-genre, referred-reads, encouragement

This book was recommended to me and I'm glad I read it!
There were some soul-stirring truths written by this great woman, Ann Lindbergh of the Lindbergh baby kidnapping (she was the child's mother). By the time she'd written this book, she'd gained a lifetime of wisdom and understood the path that needed to be traversed to get to the best place of her life.
It's an encouraging read and one that made me want to be a better person.

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May 16, 2013 Daisy rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Jenny but I bet she read it

Recommended to Daisy by: Mummy? Jenny?

Shelves: classics

At first I thought it was dated. Then it grew into old-fashioned (which is better than dated). And now I kind of have an affection for this book. I think it was my mother who gave me a copy when I was a teenager and if I'd read it then, it would have been more powerful than it is today. Instead, it nudges you gently with ideas that I find myself scribbling down into my journal. This is sweet and a little bit inspiring, even if it is from 1955, or maybe because of that. I'd love a few days on her...more

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Jul 18, 2009 Chrystal rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: my-book-club, non-fiction

I thoroughly enjoyed this book! Her writing is soothing, enlightening, and full of wisdom and beauty.

Some of my favorite quotes:
Woman's life today is tending more and more toward the state William James describes so well in the German word, "Zerrissenheit--torn-to-pieces-hood." She cannot live perpetually in "Zerrissenheit." She will be shattered into a thousand pieces. On the contrary, she must consciously encourage those pursuits which oppose the centrifugal forces of today. Quiet time alone,...more

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Feb 20, 2013 SCLS Librarian Miss Jenna rated it 3 of 5 stars

I just re-read this classic and it's surprising to see how relevant Anne Morrow Lindbergh's observations are to today's woman. The problems and challenges she describes in the mid 1950's are even more true today--how to be a whole woman when divided between husband, children, work, friends and community. Her suggestions of an hour of solitude daily and vacations on one's own reminded me of the modern trend of meditation and certain retreats. Overall, I liked this book and I was comforted in know...more

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Sep 21, 2008 Rebecca Trujillo Batty rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I believe this book was mentioned in The Poisonwood Bible, which is why I took the time to read it. It was ok. I did like the comparisons she made from the different shells to life, but felt that it was dated. She does admit this in the "re-opened" section at the end of the book. Some true statements I found in this book are:

pg.39: "Eternally, woman spills herself away in driblets to the thirsty, seldom being allowed the time, the quiet, the peace, to let the pitcher fill up to the brim."

pg. 58:...more

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Aug 05, 2008 Sydney rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Therese, Lisa, Michelle, Tara, Shawna, Kristy, Amy, Lacey, Diane, Brigitte, Faith, Andrea, Holli

What a little gem of a book! I've had this one sitting on my shelf for at least 8 years. I can't remember if I recieved it for a graduation gift from college or grad school. For some reason I picked it up this weekend and I'm so glad I did. It was a very soothing read. What struck me is the book was written in 1955, yet the thinking is quite progressive. The author speaks of what women need to do to make sure they don't lose themselves in daily life. There's talk of taking time for yourself away...more

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Jan 09, 2008 Charyce rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Every woman

Recommended to Charyce by: Jackie Goddard and Caroline Brock

Shelves: non-fiction, spiritual

In Anne Morrow Lindburg's book A Gift From The Sea, she describes her insights into the complexity of womanhood and life as she discovered them in a brief vacation by the sea.

She helps us see ways to reconcile our most deeply personal needs with obligations to family, friends, lovers, and work, ways to separate loneliness from replenishing solitude, and ways to find solace in the simplest of daily tasks.

It is a book that has brought me peace many times when I have felt afflicted by the many need...more

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Feb 16, 2009 Lisa rated it 4 of 5 stars

Good book. I wanted to give it more stars but my clicker wouldn't click. The author reveals to the reader that most of us live life in some kind of shell but the important thing is being happy with the shell we are in at any given moment. The secret to living a real,authenic life.
loved it.

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Mar 22, 2009 Kristen rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: own

Amazing. The fact that this was written in another generation yet still applies so seamlessly (and will for generations) is just a mark of its timelessness. A poignant, sit-and-ponder compilation of meanderings without being preachy or trite. You just feel like you're sitting with the author over a cup of tea, as she looks off in the distance and remembers/ponders. This is one I must buy and want to read again and again as I grow. Both the quasi-women's rights, quasi-futureSAHM parts of me relis...more

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Dec 08, 2011 Patti rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2011

surprising to find a book written in the 1950's that still speaks true today.

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Mar 10, 2010 Ginia rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: non-fiction, self-help, read-in-2010

There's so much to this book even though it's short. It's deep and thoughtful and it's a fresh ocean breeze to me. I pine for the beach, and for solitude. The author stresses that solitude (being alone) is essential for our relationships to work, be it with our children, and spouse, and friends. I don't think it's out-dated. It has stood the test of time.

My favorite so-true quote:

Distraction is, always has been, and probably always will be, inherent in a woman's life. (I'm distracted right now w...more

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Mar 17, 2009 Em rated it 4 of 5 stars

This book had a lot of great advice in it. I've never been one that enjoys metaphors, I would rather people just say what they mean in plain english, but I think that Anne Lindbergh did okay with hers. I agreed completely with her point that women need to be more centered. I'm definatly not into self-help books at all, but this was one of the better ones. I find myself waking up everyday, planning every minute of the day. It's gotten so bad that everynight before bed Kaitlyn will ask me what we...more

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Feb 23, 2009 Holly rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Pretty much anyone

Recommended to Holly by: Aiti (Sirpa)

Shelves: classics

My Aiti gave me this book a couple of years ago for Christmas and I'm so glad (and a little embarrassed) that I finally got around to reading it. A super short read but one which has lasting effects. I had a hard time deciding whether it deserved four or five stars because I definitely felt amazed after I finished.

Mother, poet, and pilot Lindbergh wrote this during a brief vacation by the sea in 1955. In it she shares her meditations on finding contentment in each of the different stages of life...more

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Jun 07, 2013 Adrian rated it 4 of 5 stars

I was not aware this book is as old as it is (almost sixty years). The problems faced by women haven't changed all that much. I think they have intensified, but the problem itself is still the same.

The first part reminded me of a General Conference talk about doing the 'best' things rather than the 'good' things, and giving up some of our heavy burdens, like our pride. The metaphor of middle life as oysters striving to establish themselves securely rang very true for me. I also especially apprec...more

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Jun 02, 2013 NTE rated it 3 of 5 stars

I am going back and forth on the rating for this one: On the one hand, there's less than 150 pages and at least 7 sticky notes... this reflects well on the book. On the other hand, there's ... just something- A tone. A knowing-ness. A "Secret" vibe. - that made uncomfortable with the whole of the book. So, 3 stars, but with the caveat that I know Lindbergh was probably smarter & more in tune with herself than I will ever be with myself, and maybe that's off-putting to me?

I look back at the s...more I am going back and forth on the rating for this one: On the one hand, there's less than 150 pages and at least 7 sticky notes... this reflects well on the book. On the other hand, there's ... just something- A tone. A knowing-ness. A "Secret" vibe. - that made uncomfortable with the whole of the book. So, 3 stars, but with the caveat that I know Lindbergh was probably smarter & more in tune with herself than I will ever be with myself, and maybe that's off-putting to me?

I look back at the sticky notes, hoping for some inspiration, wisdom: "Communication - but not for too long. Because good communication is stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after." It's there, in the thoughts so clearly spelled out that I marked them to come back to later - her thinking through the value in and of her life, and finding out so many things about herself and her relationships, during this break from it all, sitting in an isolated cabin, walking on an abandoned beach. I don't know, something about it is so uplifting, this woman finding both the personal and universal truths in her life - "For 'there is no one-and-only,' as a friend of mine once said in a similar discussion, 'there are just one-and-only moments.'" - It's breathtaking and beautiful, and at the same time, frustrating to me.

In a way I can't fully describe, the simplicity of it all (describing her thoughts and revelations as different types of shells) frustrates me. It makes me feel stupid, instead of inspired. Because I'm not making things as simple as they seem here, and I don't know how to. Part of what annoys me is her obvious privileges - to spare the time away, to take those breaths that renew her without constant pain or a child crying at her leg - when she counsels others to take the time for themselves, I feel that raging frustration of "Well, sure, but HOW Do You Do That In Real Life?" And I know her times were different, and I really don't know anything about her life at all (I know the basics, and looked up more after I read the book - The lost baby, the exile, the hounding press, the feminist icon, the naturalist, eventually disabled by a stroke and lost not all that long ago) but I know it was hard, and that she could put together the pieces with such clarity as she writes in this book ("Now, instead of planting our solitude with our own dream blossoms, we choke the space with continuous music, chatter, and companionship to which we do not even listen. It is simple there to fill the vacuum. When the noise stops there is no inner music to take its place. We must re-learn to be alone." And this is pre TV/Twitter/Tumblr, people, but it's my life.)

It pisses me off and gives me hope at the same time. That deserves 3 stars all on its own, I suppose. (less)

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Mar 23, 2013 Nancy rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: owned-books, re-reading

I re-read this little book of meditations shortly after reading The Aviator's Wife, a fictional autobiography of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, because I wanted to revisit her own writing. What's amazing is how her thoughts are relevant even today, 58 years later. She wrote this in 1955, it was reprinted twenty years later in 1975, I received this 20th Anniversary Edition as a birthday gift from my sister (thank you, Kellun!) and read it for the first time in 1988, and now I'm reading it in 2013 - 25 ye...more

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Feb 16, 2013 Kiersten Lawson rated it 3 of 5 stars

I discovered this little book at a beach house in Yachats, OR. A bit simplistic but resonant, particulary since I read it as it was written: in solitude at the sea.

"Yeats once said that the supreme experience of life was 'to share profound thought and then to touch.' But it takes both."
"And when we are tired of walking, we lie flat on the sand under a bowl of stars. We feel stretched, expanded to take in their compass. They pour into us until we are filled with stars, up to the brim. One thirsts...more

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Jul 09, 2012 Joyce Elferdink rated it 5 of 5 stars

I just re-read this book after a hiatus of a few years and loved it as much as ever! In the past, it gave me a vision of living a more balanced agenda every day. That's something I'm still striving for, although Lindbergh reminded me of some important ways to do that, especially by creating islands of time where "the past and the future are cut off; only the present remains. Existence in the present gives island living an extreme vividness and purity." (p. 40)

What seemed brand new was the messa...more

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Jun 02, 2012 Lisa rated it 4 of 5 stars

I just read an amazing book.

It contains words, as books usually do, and offers clarity that can speak to people from any generation, especially women but I think the lessons apply to both sexes. It contains poetry, imagery, honesty, insight, and peace.

While I bought the Kindle version, I wish I owned a hard copy. I want to write notes in pencil in the margin, dog ear pages, and read it over and over again. I know, some of you are wincing at the thought of the desecration of the pristine pages, b...more

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Mar 23, 2012 Allison rated it 5 of 5 stars

I first found this book in a little book store on Shelter Island when I was a teenager on a boat trip with my family. Maybe I was 18 or 19? And reading it this time around, I wonder how it could possibly have been as relevant for me then as it is for me now, as I approach my 40th birthday. But I remember thinking then that it was written specifically for me. I have read it every single year that I have gone to the beach since then, and sometimes even in dry years. It exemplifies why books rock....more

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Nov 06, 2011 Rachel Crooks rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Becca

Lately in the busy-ness of being in grad school, I find that they days can often seem lonely. The day usually involves hours of practicing (alone), and then many of the human interactions that I have are usually based around working or school. I find myself coming home with the frequent feeling of not being known, in the way that a good coversation or valuable one-on-one time can make you feel.

I found Gift from the Sea at a church book sale, and it really was a gift (if not from the sea :). I...more

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“The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.” — 1,177 people liked it

“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. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible, in life as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom, in the sense that the dancers are free, barely touching as they pass, but partners in the same pattern.

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 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. Relationships must be like islands, one must accept them for what they are here and now, within their limits - islands, surrounded and interrupted by the sea, and continually visited and abandoned by the tides.” — 241 people liked it

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