Ocean Rowing Quotes

#1. I always envisioned myself as traveling the ocean of life in a rowboat where my mother was one oar and my father, the other. Having two good, solid oars made rowing much easier.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#2. The mind aware of itself is a pilot ... vastly freer than a passenger mind.

Marilyn Ferguson

#3. I was also startled by the fact that research participants consistently described both joyfulness and gratitude as spiritual practices that were bound to a belief in human connectedness and a power greater than us.

Brene Brown

#4. [When you meet a swordsman/ meet him with a sword Do not offer a poem to anyone but a poet]

Dan Simmons

#5. The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.

Stanley Fish

#6. I suppose the daily disciplines are just a reflection of the qualities of my inner world - a mixture of paralysis and terror and a lighter, freer, kind of rebellious woman. So those are just constantly pushing against each other, and that's played out in every area of my life.

Miranda July

#7. When you've got kids, it's a big undertaking. It's like doing four movies in a row.

Scott Raab

#8. Today, God, help me practice the concept of acceptance in my life. Help me accept myself, others, and my circumstances. Take me one step further, and help me feel grateful.

Melody Beattie

#9. There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lies happiness.

Gelett Burgess

#10. I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman.

Crystal Eastman

#11. The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.

Mark Twain

#12. Muhammad's example must have had a lasting effect on his early followers: as Nabia Abbott has shown, throughout the first two centuries of Islam, Muslims regularly read the Torah alongside the Quran. Certainly,

Reza Aslan

#13. A good shell has to have life and resiliency to get in harmony with the swing of the crew.

Daniel James Brown

#14. Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their deeds.

Isaiah

#15. Ocean rowing is very much what you make it. Rowing technique is pretty irrelevant on the ocean. It's the psychology that's important.

Roz Savage

#16. What thought can think, another thought can mend.

Robert Southwell

#17. The hype that follows me doesn't bug me. I expect more out of myself than anyone else does, that's for sure.

Jason Spezza

#18. I grew up in and the teachers. I think I was very lucky. I think I had a lot of social capital, and so when I found myself in this position of influence, I just - then I started to engage a bit with some of the problems in the world and realize that I could actually have an impact.

Matt Damon