Whaling Station Quotes

#1. He is embraced by nature, which is waiting, ultimately, to receive him, to re-organize his atoms into another shape.

M. L. Stedman - The Light Between Oceans

#2. The natural result of utilizing different perspectives is that people are more engaged because they feel their opinions are important.

Eunice Parisi-Carew

#3. Nobody taught Picasso how to paint - he learned for himself. And nobody can teach you to be a producer. You can learn the mechanics, but you can't learn what's right about a script or a director or an actor. That comes from instinct and intuition. It comes from inside you.

Dino De Laurentiis

#4. The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways.

Bryant H. McGill

#5. To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment.

George Edward Woodberry

#6. To the bunch at Ryan's Tavern who still quite justifiably blame the boss rather than themselves.

Richard Fitzgerald

#7. The deep places in our lives - places of resistance and embrace - are reached only by stories, by images, metaphors and phrases that line out the world differently, apart from our fear and hurt.

Walter Brueggemann

#8. Freedom can never be true of name and form; it is the clay out of which we (the pots) are made; then it is limited and not free, so that freedom can never be true of the related. One pot can never say "I am free" as a pot; only as it loses all ideas of form does it become free.

Swami Vivekananda

#9. Men would not be so hasty to abandon the world either as monks or as suicides, did they but see the jewels of wisdom and faith which are scattered so plentifully along its paths; and lacking which no soul can come again from beyond the grave to gather.

William Mountford