All of our Quotes

From birth man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth, but man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.
—Jacques Yves Cousteau sailing

If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.
—Michael Crichton history life

You can’t bullshit the ocean. It’s just not listening.
—David Crosby / American songwriter sailing

Boats, like whiskey, are all good.
—A. Culler sailing

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
—E. E. Cummings philosophy

Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.
—Ray Cummings life

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
—George William Curtis sailing

The best bilge pump of all is a bucket in the hands of a frightened man
—Butch Dalrymple Smith sailing

Among many pernicious notions of our time, perhaps the most dangerous is the idea, sometimes implied and sometimes expressed, that life is more or less a lottery. That we are less masters of our fate than corks floating in a sea of luck. Or, even more absurd, that most of us are victims of some kind, and therefore in desperate need of others to protect us against a world of predators and against our own gullibility.
—Mitch Daniels / ex-governor of Indiana freedom government life

The quieter you become, the more you can hear.
—Baba Ram Dass life

The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can’t be organized or regulated. It isn’t true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.”
—Baba Ram Dass best life

When you go out into the woods, and you look at trees, you see all these different trees. And some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are whatever. And you look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is. You sort of understand that it didn’t get enough light, and so it turned that way. And you don’t get all emotional about it. You just allow it. You appreciate the tree.

The minute you get near humans, you lose all that. And you are constantly saying "You are too this", or "I’m too this". That judgment mind comes in. And so I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are.
—Baba Ram Dass best life

We are all just walking each other home.
—Baba Ram Dass best life

We’re fascinated by words, but where we meet is in the silence behind them.
—Baba Ram Dass life

I can do nothing for you but work on myself… you can do nothing for me but work on yourself!
—Baba Ram Dass life

Out of sight of land the sailor feels safe. It is the beach that worries him.
—Charles C. Davis sailing

A tourist remains an outsider throughout his visit; but a sailor is part of the local scene from the moment he arrives.
—Anne Davison life sailing travel

Bad cooking is responsible for more trouble at sea than all other things put together.
—Thomas Fleming Day cooking sailing

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
—Edgar Degas life

The lovely thing about cruising is that planning usually turns out to be of little use.
—Dom Degnon sailing