Wijsmuller Cargo Quotes

#1. The secret of my full identity is hidden in Him. He alone can make me who I am, or rather who I will be when at last I fully begin to be. But unless I desire this identity and work to find it with Him and in Him, the work will never be done

Thomas Merton

#2. There are two ways to find a lost city. The first is to rely on luck alone, the second is to control all the information.

Tahir Shah

#3. My mother always told me that there is only one way a woman can be truly safe in this world. And that is to be fiercely, inarguably, and masterfully talented. This is different than being intelligent or even educated. (Satomi from Picking Bones From Ash)

Marie Mutsuki Mockett

#4. All things are ordered by God, but His providence takes in our free agency, as well as His own sovereignty.

Tryon Edwards

#5. We have a new problem, fresh from the oven and hot as hell.

Scott Lynch

#6. Strengths are not activities you're good at, they're activities that strengthen you. A strength is an activity that before you're doing it you look forward to doing it; while you're doing it, time goes by quickly and you can concentrate; after you've done it, it seems to fulfill a need of yours.

Marcus Buckingham

#7. The arrogance of wanting to be loved had emerged only now it was unreciprocated - I was left alone with my desire, defenseless, beyond the law, shockingly crude in my demands: Love me! And for what reason? I had only the usual paltry, insufficient excuse: Because I love you . .

Alain De Botton