Dancing With the Wind Quotes

“Find a way to learn something from every disappointment.”
― Laurie Nadel, Dancing With the Wind: A True Story of Zen in the Art of Windsurfing

“Like Salvador Dali’s paintings of watches melting in the sand, time wanders at its own curious pace whenever you’re on vacation in a foreign country.”
― Laurie Nadel, Dancing With the Wind: A True Story of Zen in the Art of Windsurfing

“There are two kinds of special events: planned and unplanned.”
― Laurie Nadel, Dancing With the Wind: A True Story of Zen in the Art of Windsurfing

“Of all the things I wish for her, above all, I want her to know and love the sea.”
― Laurie Nadel, Dancing With the Wind: A True Story of Zen in the Art of Windsurfing

“The human psyche is a self-correcting mechanism.”
― Laurie Nadel, Dancing With the Wind: A True Story of Zen in the Art of Windsurfing

“Unraveling life lessons from just the past few years would take many more years. Lessons unlearned would pass with me, when I went through that door, to be completed in some future lifetime.”
― Laurie Nadel, Dancing With the Wind: A True Story of Zen in the Art of Windsurfing

“My former identity was lying around, somewhere, fragmented and buried, like shards from an earlier civilization.”
― Laurie Nadel, Dancing With the Wind: A True Story of Zen in the Art of Windsurfing

“Every misfortune is a blessing in disguise.”
― Laurie Nadel, Dancing With the Wind: A True Story of Zen in the Art of Windsurfing

“I took up windsurfing to explore my own courage.”
― Laurie Nadel, Dancing With the Wind: A True Story of Zen in the Art of Windsurfing

“A wide-angle view of sails sparkling white against a cobalt sky as light dances, silver on the water. Like art, it soothes the edge, allowing you to see something simple from a different perspective.”
― Laurie Nadel, Dancing With the Wind: A True Story of Zen in the Art of Windsurfing

“Barely halfway back, exhaustion sets in. What if I don’t make it? An edge of panic gets intercepted by a calmer inner voice: Look behind you.”
― Laurie Nadel, Dancing With the Wind: A True Story of Zen in the Art of Windsurfing

“Soul-to-soul contact sweeps through, like a tsunami, leaving in its wake just this: unconditional surrender and overwhelming gentleness.”
― Laurie Nadel, Dancing With the Wind: A True Story of Zen in the Art of Windsurfing

“Swirling around my ears, the wind and I whooping at the sea, picking up speed, breathing it all in. An act of loving life.”
― Laurie Nadel, Dancing With the Wind: A True Story of Zen in the Art of Windsurfing

“Lucid dreams often feel like this—as if you are observing yourself from a point over your shoulders-arm flexed, hands curving around the boom, breathing, in three dimensional silence.”
― Laurie Nadel, Dancing With the Wind: A True Story of Zen in the Art of Windsurfing

“If there’s a takeaway from working here, it’s an understand that, as bioorganisms, we are a walking time bomb programed for cellular self-destruction. Not if, when.”
― Laurie Nadel, Dancing With the Wind: A True Story of Zen in the Art of Windsurfing

“Flip a coin. Life or death. Heads or tails. You never know.”
― Laurie Nadel, Dancing With the Wind: A True Story of Zen in the Art of Windsurfing

“Producing obituaries is a way of creating a legacy to remember important people of our times and their contributions. No matter whose obituary it is, I look for something inspirational about each person.”
― Laurie Nadel, Dancing With the Wind: A True Story of Zen in the Art of Windsurfing

“Instead of falling, I am dancing with the wind.”
― Laurie Nadel, Dancing With the Wind: A True Story of Zen in the Art of Windsurfing

“Out here on the water, it’s a fine line between feeling in control and losing it altogether.”
― Laurie Nadel, Dancing With the Wind: A True Story of Zen in the Art of Windsurfing

“If you didn’t fall down, you would never have learned how to pick yourself up.”
― Laurie Nadel, Dancing With the Wind: A True Story of Zen in the Art of Windsurfing

“The only sharks I’m afraid of are the ones that wear three-piece suits and write memos.”
― Laurie Nadel, Dancing With the Wind: A True Story of Zen in the Art of Windsurfing

“Inside, my spirit is sparkling like foam on the crest of a wave at high tide under a full moon.”
― Laurie Nadel, Dancing With the Wind: A True Story of Zen in the Art of Windsurfing

“Windsurfing, the sound of the word contains all the mystery of a solitary buoy in the fog, echoing across the water at the end of the day.”
― Laurie Nadel, Dancing With the Wind: A True Story of Zen in the Art of Windsurfing

“Where are you?’
‘I am between the light and the waves.”
― Laurie Nadel, Dancing With the Wind: A True Story of Zen in the Art of Windsurfing

“An intuitive insight or concept can often turn out to be an unexpected success.”
― Laurie Nadel, Dancing With the Wind: A True Story of Zen in the Art of Windsurfing