Susan Beth Pfeffer Quotes

Sometimes that is why you might even stay in the bathroom for even half an hour, making that water running all over, just singing.

Swimming is normal for me. I'm relaxed. I'm comfortable, and I know my surroundings. It's my home.

At sea, I feel comfortable and I come to rest.

I feel most at home in the water. I disappear. That's where I belong.

And the new day was a great big fish.

So when I cease to be I want to go back...to the sea! Oh for the life of a sardine! That is the life for me!

If ever you do go back, what is it you want of Evesham?" "Do I know? [...] The silence, it might be ... or the stillness. To have no more running to do ... to have arrived, and have no more need to run. The appetite changes. Now I think it would be a beautiful thing to be still.

I'm fortunate enough with the surfing to be very much at home at the water - my pulse and heart rate are slower in the water than they are on land.

Going out there in the water, it feels as if there's nothing wrong with me.

The only time I can really relax is up a tree or somewhere outside. I love being outside.

As soon as I get on my boat, something inside me changes. Then I really feel what living is.

You can go up in the air and everything is gone. You know, you don't think about baseball. You don't think about anything. It's just something that takes you away from everyday life. I love being in a plane and looking down to see traffic on the freeway.

I like going into nature and that's where I'm happiest.

I've gotten into surfing a bit. I can't stand up for more than five seconds, but I like the fact that I can paddle out into oblivion.

Every day I wake up in Paris, it's real tranquillity. No pressure. I'm out of the grasp of people. I don't have a phone, and I drift a little bit.

I've always thought it'd be nice to be seaweed, kind of just floating about.

I absolutely fell in love with being on the water and the peace and freedom that you get being on the water in a single boat.

Blue is the color of peace. Water is blue. I like the color blue because it just puts me at peace. The patriotic symbol is blue. I just like blue.

Sunsets are my escape into the reality I want to continuously live.

If I'm confused, I just spend some time looking at the sky and falling into it. It's not a meditation that anyone taught me, it's something I've done my whole life, and liked doing, and it made me feel like nothing.

Unless you really understand the water, and understand the reason for being on it, and understand the love of sailing and the feeling of quietness and solitude, you don't really belong on a boat anyway. I think Hemingway said one time that the sea is the last free place on earth.

Speak not, move not, but listen, the sky is full of gold. No ripple on the river, no stir in field or fold, All gleams but naught doth glisten, but the far-off unseen sea. Forget days past, heart broken, put all memory by! No grief on the green hillside, no pity in the sky, Joy that may not be spoken fills mead and flower and tree.

I'm leaving my sorrows and all my memories behind to see what I find, somewhere in the shade near the sound of a sweet singing river, somewhere in the sun where the mountains make love to the sky.

The great fact in life, the always possible escape from dullness, was the lake. The sun rose out of it, the day began there; it was like an open door that nobody could shut. The land and all its dreariness could never close in on you. You had only to look at the lake, and you knew you would soon be free.

In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.