Moitessier Bernard Quotes

#1. It was impossible to quarrel with words, whose tremulous inequality showed indisposition so plainly.

Jane Austen

#2. That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman.

William Shakespeare

#3. I hate storms, but calms undermine my spirits.

Bernard Moitessier

#4. A sailor's joys are as simple as a child's.

Bernard Moitessier

#5. Now I know of only two methods of establishing equality in the political world; every citizen must be put in possession of his rights, or rights must be granted to no one.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#6. I chose Van Gogh.

Cheryl Strayed

#7. 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

#8. Forgiveness is a mystical act, not a reasonable one.

Caroline Myss

#9. 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

#10. When a great adventure is launched with a powerful thrust, fatigue in the muscles and doubts in the mind are swept away by a fullness that moves life along like a breath from the depths of the soul.

Bernard Moitessier

#11. 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