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When summertime rolls in and the days get hot enough that you need to cool off from the blazing heat, nothing beats packing up and heading to the beach for a day spent along the ocean shore. It’s a summer adventure that never fails to yield tons of fun, no matter how many times you visit — the beach never gets old. It’s a place where all worries melt away in the summer heat as you lay under your beach tent or go swimming in the shimmering water.
That’s why we are celebrating this perfect place and sharing these inspirational beach quotes that encapsulate the perfect summer vibes. You’ll either be imagining yourself laying on a beach towel on the sand or rushing to pack your beach bag ASAP with a bottle of sunscreen, new swimsuit and water bottle. And of course, we also have these summer Instagram captions that you can browse through for the perfect summer quote as you post your beach pics to social media, because we know there will be endless photos with all your friends!
So what are you waiting for? Get your trusted cooler ready to go with healthy snacks and other essentials for a fun day at the beach!
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Anne Morrow Lindberg
The beach is not a place to work; to read, write or to think.
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Unknown
If you need me, call me on my shell.
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Jennifer Donnelly
Meet me where the sky touches the sea.
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John Joly
That the sea is one of the most beautiful and magnificent sights in Nature, all admit.
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Kahlil Gibran
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.
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Kate Summers
Only at the beach can we go a splishin’ and a splashin’.
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Kristen Butler
Sunsets are proof that no matter what happens every day can end beautifully.
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Sylvia Earle
Every time I slip into the ocean, it’s like going home.
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T.S. Eliot
At the beach — time you enjoyed wasting, is not wasted.
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The Beach Boys
Catch a wave and you’re sitting on top of the world.
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H. Jackson Brown Jr.
A kiss on the beach when there is a full moon is the closest thing to heaven.
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Jenny Han
When you walk on the beach at night, you can say things you can’t say in real life.
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Yanni
For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I’m happy.
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e.e.cummings
For whatever we lose (like a you or a me) it’s always ourselves we find in the sea.
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John F. Kennedy
We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch – we are going back from whence we came.
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Sjana Elise Earp
Isn’t it strange, the way time moves? I could stand here and watch the sea crash beneath me for hours and it would feel like only minutes had passed.
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Hermann Broch
Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.
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Haruki Murakami
Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when I’m talking to people, I always want to look at the ocean.
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Michelle Bachelet
You all want to know what my dream is? Very simple. To walk along the beach, holding the hand of my lover.
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Isak Dinesen
The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea.
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Jacques Yves Cousteau
The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
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Sarah Kay
Because there’s nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it’s sent away.
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Emilia Wickstead
To escape and sit quietly on the beach — that’s my idea of paradise.
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Unknown
I followed my heart, and it led me to the beach.
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Rafael Nadal
I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within — in front of the sea.
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Unknown
There’s no place like home except for the beach.
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Robert Henri
Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.
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Dennis Wilson
On the beach, you can live in bliss.
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Sandy Gingras
At the beach, life is different. Time doesn’t move hour to hour but mood to moment. We live by the currents, plan by the tides and follow the sun.
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Unknown
Life takes you down many paths, but my favorite ones lead to the beach.
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