Allen Rosenberg quotes

“Internally, you experience rowing as a graphic microcosm of life - solitude, learning, work, rest, nourishment, sharing and ultimately challenge.”
-- Allen Rosenberg

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“Difficulties and obstacles are God's challenges to faith. When hindrances confront us in the path of duty, we are to recognize them as vessels for faith to fill with the fullness and all-sufficiency of Jesus.”

“It is very clear that one way to challenge insults is to submit to them.”

“Crime too is a form of solitude, even if one thousand get together to commit it. And it is right for me to die alone, after having lived and killed alone.”

“Wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense!”

“Work cannot convey the almost voluptuous sweetness of the feelings experienced ... in solitude.”

“There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.”

Source : Aeschylus (1954). “Aeschylus: Oresteia; Agamemnon, The libation bearers, The Eumenides, translated and with an introd. by R. Lattimore”

“And all the way, to guide their chime, With falling oars they kept their time.”

“While power is important, efficiency is critical. Many have worked hard and gone slow.”

“Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.”

Source : Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.12, Open Road Media

“Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.”