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Dancing with the Wind: A True Story of Zen in the Art of Windsurfing QUOTES

Dancing with the Wind: A True Story of Zen in the Art of Windsurfing QUOTES

1 " 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

2 " 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

3 " 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

4 " 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

5 " 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

6 " 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

7 " 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

8 " 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

9 " 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

10 " 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

11 " 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

12 " 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

13 " 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

14 " 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

15 " 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

16 " 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

17 " 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

18 " Every misfortune is a blessing in disguise. "

― Laurie Nadel , Dancing with the Wind: A True Story of Zen in the Art of Windsurfing

19 " 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

20 " 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