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There is something to be said about one’s experiences of the beach. For sand and surf, sun tanning and seashell collecting, the place where ocean meets land is a release for all things work entailing; a balance for all things in our day that take up our time and occupy our lives.

A “beach life” is what inspires the mission statement of my brand! There are days for me as well, however, where the nearest I am to a slice of paradise goes no further than being immersed in the work of presenting my product line with the pieces I share.

For those days when the ends of the earth, the smell of salt air and the sound of ocean waves are far from within reach, a collection of 50 famously inspiring quotes about the beach & the sea to help bring me back to its retreat.

Life is better at the beach! It really is, I truly think.

“I couldn’t imagine living in a state that didn’t reach the ocean. It was a giant reset button. You could go to the edge of the land and see infinity renewed.” - Avery Sawyer

“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.” - John F. Kennedy

“The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.” - Henry Beston

“Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of time.” - H.P. Lovecraft

“The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.” - Isak Dinesen

“The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul.” - Robert Wyland

“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” - Andre Gide

“For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), it’s always our self we find in the sea.” - E.E. Cummings

“We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.” - Thomas Fuller

“The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonders forever.” - Jacques Cousteau

“I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want to consistency rather than the highs and the lows.” - Drew Barrymore

“I love the sea’s sounds and the way it reflects the sky. The colors that shimmer across its surface are unbelievable. This, combined with the color of the water over white sand, surprises me every time.” - John Dyer

“The sea will grant each man new hope, and sleep will bring dreams of home.” - Christopher Columbus

“My soul is full of longing for the secrets of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me.” - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“I spent uncounted hours sitting at the bow looking at the water and sky, studying each wave, different from the last, seeing how it caught the light, the air, the wind; watching patterns, the sweep of it all, and letting it take me. The sea.” - Gary Paulsen

“Limitless and immortal, the waters are the beginning and end of all things on earth.” - Heinrich Zimmer

“Every time we walk along a beach, some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.” - Loren Eiseley

“I could never stay long enough on the shore; the tang of the untainted, fresh, and free sea air was like a cool, quieting thought.” - Helen Keller

“When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everything in me that is bewildered and confused.” - Rainer Maria Rilke

“At night, when the sky is full of stars and the sea is still you get the wonderful sensation that you are floating in space.” - Natalie Wood

“The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeks. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can’t.” - Christopher Paolini

“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.” - Sarah Kay

“I took off on a wave, went down the side, popped out the other end, and went ‘shit, I’m still alive’!” - Greg Noll

“Out of water, I am nothing.” - Duke Kahanamoku

“There’s nothing wrong with enjoying looking at the surface of the ocean itself, except that when you finally see what goes on underwater, you realize that you’ve been missing the whole point of the ocean. Staying on the surface all the time is like going to the circus and staring at the outside of the tent.” - Dave Barry

“My boat is on the shore, and my bark is on the sea.” - Lord George Gordon Byron

“Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.” - William Shakespeare

“With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you’re connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live.” - Sylvia Earle

“And so castles made of sand, fall in the sea, eventually.” - Jimi Hendrix

“It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.” - Hunter S. Thompson

“There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.” - Joseph Conrad

“I have always been fascinated by the ocean, to dip a limb beneath its surface and know that I’m touching eternity, that it goes on forever until it begins here again.” - Lauren DeStefano

“Catch a wave, and you’re sitting on top of the world.” - The Beach Boys

“I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.” - T.S. Eliot

“My life is like a stroll on the beach…as near to the edge as I can go.” - Henry David Thoreau

“Our memories of the ocean will linger on, long after our footprints in the sand are gone.” - Anonymous

“Even the upper end of the river believes in the ocean.” - William Stafford

“One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach; one can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.” - Anne Morrow Lindberg

“Why do we love the sea? it is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.” - Robert Henri

“Every time I stand before a beautiful beach, its waves seem to whisper to me: If you choose the simple things and find joy in nature’s simple treasures, life and living need not be so hard.” - Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

“Eternity begins and ends with the ocean’s tides.” - Unknown

“Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single though of which the sea would not be part.” - Hermann Broch

“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.” - Jon Kabat-Zan

“It’s hard for me to put into words why I like the beach so much. Everything about it is renewing for me, almost like therapy…Beach Therapy.” - Amy Dykens

“What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.” - Werner Herzog

“At the beach, life is different. A day moves not from hour to hour but leaps from mood to moment. We go with the currents, plan around the tides, follow the sun. We measure happiness by nothing we can hold, nothing we can catch. Everywhere, life is jumping and elusive and momentously momentary.” - Sandy Gingras

“I felt the full breadth and depth of the ocean around the sphere of the Earth, back billions of years to the beginning of life, across all the passing lives and deaths, the endless waves of swimming joy and quiet losses of exquisite creatures with fins and fronds, tentacles and wings, colourful and transparent, tiny and huge, coming and going. There is nothing the ocean has not seen.” - Sally Andrew

To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.“ - Jeanne Moreau

"The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective…it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you’ve been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean.” - Beyoncé Knowles

Amen, Beyoncé. Amen.

she knew

how to hide

her tears

behind a

beautiful

smile,

that no one

dared to ask

about—

and sees

the sadness

lying

in her

eyes.

Today we’re going to be looking at the particle -으로, which used in conjunction with nouns, and indicates the way or method by which something is done. It is used in situations to describe methods of transport, communication, actions done with the hands (eg: using a pen), and even parts of the body itself.

-으로 is used when attached to a noun ending in a consonant, except for ㄹ. -로 is used for nouns ending in a vowel, or ㄹ.

For example: 펜 + 으로 →  펜으로 ([written] by pen) 버스 + 로 →  버스로 (by bus) 지하철 + 로 →  지하철로 (by subway)

Let’s have a look at this in use:

레오: 켄 씨는 어떻게 학교에 와요? 켄: 지하철로 와요. Leo: Ken, how do you get to school? Ken: I come via subway.

But sometimes, maybe Ken takes the bus to campus instead. In English Ken would say he takes the bus or the subway to school. To express the word “or” in Korean, you would use (이)나.

-이나 is attached to nouns ending in a consonants including ㄹ. -나 is attached to nouns ending in vowels.

레오: 켄 씨는 어떻게 학교에 와요? 켄: 버스나 지하철로 와요. Leo:  Ken, how do you get to school? Ken: I come by bus or subway.

Yesterday, Ken walked home from school to his house. It’s kind of far, and he’s super proud of this fact, so he wants to tell Leo.

The markers -에서 and -까지 are used together to express the idea of -from one place and -to another. These markers are attached directly to locations.

레오: 켄 씨는 어떻게 학교에 와요? 켄: 버스나 지하철로 와요. 레오: 아, 그래요. 켄: 그런데 어제 학교에서 집까지 걸러서 갔어요. Leo: Ken, how do you get to school? Ken: I come by bus or subway. Leo: Ah, I see. Ken: But yesterday I walked from school to my house.

That’s all for lesson 11! It’s simple right? If you have any questions please send me an ask!

Under the keep reading link, you’ll find some words and useful phrases related to what you’ve learned today. See you next lesson!

When you want to say you went to a location for a specific purpose, the grammar point 으러 가요/와요 is used to express this. The phrase is attached directly to the verb indicating the action that was performed in the location.

으러 가요/와요 is used when the preceding verb stem spelling ends in a consonant, except for ㄹ. 러 가요/와요 is used when the preceding verb stem spelling ends in a vowel, or ㄹ.

For example: Consonants except ㄹ + 으러 가다: 먹다 (to eat) → 먹으러 가다 Vowels or ‘ㄹ’ + 러 가다: 사다 (to buy) →  사러 가다                                         살다 (to live) →  살러 가다

Additionally, the location the action is taking place at is usually added between the action verb, and the final verb.

책을 읽으러 도서관에 가요. I go to the library to read books.

Using these constructions, we can create sentences like the following:

책을 사러 사점에 가요. (I go to the bookstore to buy books.) 레오 씨가 밥을 먹으러 식당에 가요. (Leo goes to the restaurant to eat.)

An important thing to note: Sentence tense is only reflected by the final verb 가다/오다, and not in the verb preceding it.

책을 사러 사점에 갔어요. (I went to the bookstore to buy books.) 레오 씨가 밥을 먹으러 식당에 갔어요. (Leo went to the restaurant to eat.)

Let’s pretend for a minute you went to eat at the restaurant with Leo. Now it’s time to leave and you want him to hand you your scarf to you, but he doesn’t see it. How would you describe where to locate it for him? This is where directional words come in. Today we’re going to look at six different directional words.

위 above, on, on top of 아래 under 앞 in front of 뒤 behind 옆 beside, next to 사이 between

Using these words and the location marker -에 you can tell him exactly where the scarf is.

레오: 스카프가 어디에 있어요? (Where is the scarf?)

스카프가 가방 위에 있어요. (The scarf is on top of the bag.) 스카프가 가방 아래에 있어요. (The scarf is under the bag.) 스카프가 가방 앞에 있어요. (The scarf is in front of the bag.) 스카프가 가방 뒤에 있어요. (The scarf is behind the bag.) 스카프가 가방 옆에 있어요. (The scarf is beside the bag.) 스카프가 가방하고 지갑 사이에 있어요. (The scarf is between the bag and the wallet.)

Note that the location marker -에 comes after the directional word, not the location noun itself as it usually would.

Now for the last part of the lesson, let’s look at a sentence from above again.

스카프가 가방하고 지갑 사이에 있어요.

Using the word “and” to connect two (or more) nouns is very simple. There are a couple different ways to do this, but the suffix -하고 is generally the easiest to remember. It’s attached directly to the noun, without a space like in English.

밥하고 빵을 먹었어요. (I ate rice and bread.) 사점에서 책하고 연필을 샀어요. (I bought a book and a pencil at the bookstore.)

Another easy way of saying “and” is to use (이)랑. “랑” is used if the noun ends in a vowel, and 이랑 is used if the noun ends in a consonant.

우유랑 빵을 샀어요. (I bought milk and bread.) 책이랑 신문을 읽었어요. (I read a book and the newspaper.)

The main difference between -하고 and -(이)랑 is that the latter is more casual, so you often won’t find it used in more formal settings. If you’re unsure which to use, it’s always best to stick with -하고!

Additionally, -하고 and -(이)랑 can mean “with” instead of “and” depending on the context of the sentence. Generally it is very easy to tell by the context of the sentence whether it is supposed to mean “with” or “and”.

남자친구하고 영화를 봤어요. (I watched a movie with my boyfriend.) In the case of a sentence like this, it’s unlikely that the speaker watched both a movie and their boyfriend, so we can conclude the movie was watched WITH the boyfriend instead.

여동생이랑 쇼핑했어요. (I went shopping with my younger sister.) In a sentence like this, the only way it can be interpretted is the shopping was done with the younger sister.

어제 남자친구하고 사점에서 책하고 공책을 샀어요. (Yesterday, I bought a book and a notebook at the bookstore with my boyfriend).

So bundling everything we’ve covered in today’s lesson, have a look at the following conversation.

켄: 어제 뭐 했어요? 너: 레오 씨하고 밥을 먹으러 식당에 갔어요. 켄: 뭐 먹었어요? 너: 떡볶이하고 라면을 먹었어요. 켄: 아…. 스카프가 어디에 있어요? 너: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Did you understand? Check below to make sure!

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However, those of you who do know me well, know that I tutor / teach Korean for the Korean culture group at my university! These pdf’s are based off those lessons that I’ve taught. I hope you get a lot of use out of them! 

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If you can’t live the way others do, will it be alright to live the way you know how? Gently, searching for something you can love.

If you can’t love something the way others do, will it be alright to find a different way to love? Quietly, tracing along the shore of another’s.

—

Survival Tips Can Save You 

This post was requested by anon! 

This doesn’t apply to everyone and they aren’t scientifically proven to be 100% true (kinda like zodiac horoscopes, etc)! So keep that in mind when you read this! Enjoy :)

혈액형- blood type

Blood type A (A 형)

-Considerate and a good listener

-More introverted

-Usually holds emotions in but very scary when they explode

-Doesn’t like being lonely

-Worries too much

Blood type A is associated with girly girls! As for dating, I could only find ones for girls but here they are anyway:

A girl + A boy= Stable relationship

A girl+ B boy= The boy is more likely to be dominant (not in a good way

A girl+ AB boy= The boy is more likely to lead and has a stable relationship

A girl+ O boy= The desired happy relationship

Blood type B (B 형)

-Can’t hide their emotions

-Self-centered and has a lot of pride

-Popular due to their funny and positive attitude

-Emotional

-Actions over words

Blood type B is associated with social butterflies and for girls, they’re associated with cute girls! Same with Type A, I could only find dating combinations for girls but here they are:

B girl + A boy= Fights a lot and not a good combination

B girl + B boy= Really bad combination, both are too independent

B girl + AB boy= Good match

It’s difficult to learn how to accept yourself, sometimes it feels impossible; but trust in yourself that it can be done. We believe in you <3