Bernard Moitessier quotes
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“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.”
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“I hate storms, but calms undermine my spirits.”
-- Bernard MoitessierSource : 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 MoitessierSource : 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 MoitessierSource : 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 MoitessierSource : 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 MoitessierSource : Bernard Moitessier (1995). “The Long Way”, p.3, Rowman & Littlefield
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“Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.”
Source : Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.43, Courier Corporation
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Source : Adam Gopnik (2000). “Paris to the Moon”, Random House Incorporated
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Source : Susan Dunlap (2012). “The Bohemian Connection”, p.7, Open Road Media
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“In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.”
Source : "The Reader's Digest", Volume 152, January 1998.
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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
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