While the beach goes on.

The first two lines are a piece of a poem I wrote in high school

Confusion washes over me
like waves across the sand.....

You could use these lines to refer to a wide host of emotions. Confusion, rejection, fear.. Any emotion at all, the point is to realize emotions should be like waves across the sand. They tumble the sand around, polishing it, buffing the edges, relocating it, but never changing the core elements of the sand; and never diminishing the beach.

We need to be like those grains of sand, letting the negative emotional waves crash over us letting them move us and polish our natures; without letting them destroy or diminish us. Yes, they move us, yes they change us, but the beach goes on.

The rocks stand steadfast against the waves refusing to be moved by the emotional tides around them, refusing to acknowledge them. But bit by bit, those rocks are worn down to nothing by the waves they ignore.

While the beach goes on.