UPLIFTING   QUOTATIONS

From Famous People

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. 

So throw off the bowlines. 

Sail away from the safe harbor. 

Catch the trade winds in your sails.

Explore.  Dream.  Discover.

                                                                                                                        Mark Twain

"Does the song of the sea end at the shore or in the hearts of those who listen to it?"

                                                                                                                                 Kahlil Gibran

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.                                                                

   Jimmy Dean

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.                                                                                                                         Albert Einstein

Success: To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics
and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the
best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child,
a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has
breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!                                                                                            Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
 

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small
people talk about wine.                                                                                      Fran Lebowitz                                                                                                                                           

"To me the pleasure of sailing is almost in direct proportion to the speed, and wallowing around in some pot-bellied abortion, heeled over and straining under a lapping jib or some other rule cheating windbag, seems quite ridiculous.  Some yachtsmen seem to think the sole object of sailing is to beat a brother yachtsman and have adopted certain rules of measurement that ensure the wealthy to be winners.  They sail around courses perhaps at a rate of five miles an hour and if they have won consider themselves great sailors.  But the general public, and particularly the sailor, is getting sick of that game.  He sees no sense in trying to force several thousands of dollars worth of lead through the water with several thousand dollars worth of rule cheating sails handled by a big crew.  The sailor wants to sail and says to hell with the wealthy, bridge playing sea lawyers who win their races travelling at a rate slower than their ancestors."

                                    Nathanial Herreschoff in "Common Sense of Yacht Design" in late 1800s.

IN PASSING - STERLING HAYDEN

1916  -  1986

To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest.  Otherwise you are doomed to a routine traverse, the kind known to yachtsmen, who play with the boats at sea  -  cruising, it's called.  Voyaging belongs to seamen, and to the wanderers of the world who cannot, or will not, fit in.  If you are contemplating a voyage and you have the means, abandon the venture until your fortunes change.  Only then will you know what the sea is all about.

"I've always wanted to sail to the South Seas, but I can't afford it."  What these men can't afford is NOT to go.  They are enmeshed in the cancerous discipline of security.  And in the worship of security we fling our lives beneath the wheels of routine - and before we know it our lives are gone.

What does a man need - really need?  A few pounds of food each day, heat and shelter, six feet to lie down in - and some form of working activity that will yield a sense of accomplishment.  That's all - in the material sense.  And we know it.  But we are brainwashed by our economic system until we end up in a tomb beneath a pyramid of time payments, mortgages, preposterous gadgetry, playthings that divert our attention from the sheer idiocy of the charade.

The years thunder by.  The dreams of youth grow dim where they lie caked in dust on the shelves of patience.  Before we know it, the tomb is sealed.

Where then, lies the answer?  In choice.  Which shall it be : bankruptcy of purse or bankruptcy of life?

                                                                                  By Sterling Hayden, sailor extraordinaire

THE DILEMMA

"To laugh is to risk appearing a fool.

To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.

To reach out for another is to risk involvement.

To expose feelings is to risk rejection.

To place your dreams before the crowd is to risk ridicule.

To love is to risk not being loved in return.

To go forward in the face of overwhelming odds is to risk failure.

But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.  The person who risks nothing - has nothing.  He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he cannot learn, feel, change, grow or love.  Only a person who risks is free."

Author Unknown

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