Bad, or good, as it happens to be, that is what it is to exist! . . . It is as though I have been silent and fuddled with sleep all my life. In spite of all, I know now that at least it is better to go always towards the summer, towards those burning seas of light; to sit at night in the forecastle lost in an unfamiliar dream, when the spirit becomes filled with stars, instead of wounds, and good and compassionate and tender. To sail into an unknown spring, or receive one's baptism on storm's promontory, where the solitary albatross heels over in the gale, and at last come to land. To know the earth under one's foot and go, in wild delight, ways where there is water.
Malcolm LowryTag: inspiration travel sea growth sailing moving moving-forward boat searching-and-finding
When I'm all grown up, come what may,
I'll build a boat to carry me away
Tag: travel sailing leaving boat going-away
It’s better to be the rooster than the feather duster.
Jimmy SpithillTag: victory perseverance sailing
Now I remembered a captain's honor and his only duty: to bring his crew back alive.
Carsten JensenTag: sea duty ocean honor sailing honour
My belief assumed a form that it commonly assumes among the educated people of our time. This belief was expressed by the word "progress." At the time it seemed to me that this word had meaning. Like any living individual, I was tormented by questions of how to live better. I still had not understood that in answering that one must live according to progress, I was talking just like a person being carried along in a boat by the waves and the wind; without really answering, such a person replies to the only important question-"Where are we to steer?"-by saying, "We are being carried somewhere.
Leo TolstoyTag: progress sailing life-direction
too young to live, too old to die
Jeffrey RasleyTag: sailing mountaineering islands exploring travel-writing beaches adventure-travel climbing-mountains scuba-diving kayaking
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