Bernard Moitessier quotes

“I am a citizen of the most beautiful nation on earth, a nation whose laws are harsh yet simple, a nation that never cheats, which is immense and without borders, where life is lived in the present. In this limitless nation, this nation of wind, light, and peace, there is no other ruler besides the sea.”
-- Bernard Moitessier

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“I hate storms, but calms undermine my spirits.”
-- Bernard Moitessier

Source : Bernard Moitessier (1995). “The Long Way”, p.62, Sheridan House, Inc.

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“The questions that used to bother me at times, do not weigh anything before the immensity of a wake so close to the sky and filled with the wind of the sea”
-- Bernard Moitessier

Source : Bernard Moitessier (1995). “The Long Way”, p.4, Rowman & Littlefield

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“A sailor's joys are as simple as a child's.”
-- Bernard Moitessier

Source : Bernard Moitessier (1995). “The Long Way”, p.13, Sheridan House, Inc.

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“My real log is written in the sea and sky; the sails talking with the rain and the stars amid the sounds of the sea, the silences full of secret things between my boat and me, like the times I spent as a child listening to the forest talk.”
-- Bernard Moitessier

Source : Bernard Moitessier (1995). “The Long Way”, p.86, Rowman & Littlefield

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“You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes, that's all.”
-- Bernard Moitessier

Source : Bernard Moitessier (1995). “The Long Way”, p.3, Rowman & Littlefield

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“Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.”

“I know that people think I'm sexy and I am looked at as that. It is cool with me. It's wonderful to have sexy appeal. If you embrace it, it can be a very beautiful thing.”

“It's been a straight strip, I must tell you, I've enjoyed it all the way. If I'm saying things to make it sound like it's hard, hard work, it's not. It's beautiful work. It's fun work. It's everything you'd ever want to do.”

“Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.”

Source : Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.43, Courier Corporation

“The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else's fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore that there are no errors, that any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.”

Source : Adam Gopnik (2000). “Paris to the Moon”, Random House Incorporated

“Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.”

Source : Susan Dunlap (2012). “The Bohemian Connection”, p.7, Open Road Media

“Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love of eternal light.”

“In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.”

Source : "The Reader's Digest", Volume 152, January 1998.

“I am in awe of the things you've been put through and the fact you can still light up a room when you walk in. When I look at you I see life. I see joy. I see my future.”

Source : Abbi Glines, Colleen Hoover, Jamie McGuire (2013). “The Atria Indie Lovers Collection: Twisted Perfection, Losing Hope, and Red Hill”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

“The purely righteous do not complain of the dark, but increase the light; they do not complain of evil, but increase justice; they do not complain of heresy, but increase faith; they do not complain of ignorance, but increase wisdom.”