“…the river bends.”
“If my ship sails from sight, it does not mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.” John Enoch Powell
“If my ship sails from sight, it does not mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.” John Enoch Powell
As we pass a Navy ship I look up in awe at its size and power. I would hate to come up against this thing in a fight. But then again, i would doubt that they could see Kerala, our canoe, from there anyway. Near the end of the boat I see two sailors waving…
I’d rather be a “could-be” if I cannot be and “are”; because a “could be” is a “maybe” who is reaching for a star. I’d rather be a “has-been” than a “might-have-been,” by far. For a “might-have-been” has never “been,” but a “has” was once an “are.” -Milton Berle Tweet
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It s our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people around you won’t feel insecure. We are…
“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world’s great flood and runs over from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops-under rocks are the words and some of the words are theirs.” -Norman Maclean (from a River Runs Through…
“There’s nothing… absolutely nothing… half so much worth doing as simply messing around in boats.” -Kenneth Grahme, The Wind in the Willows Tweet
“I have to quit training. My muscles are too big.” Cockiness and excuses are bad traits by themselves, in combination they are even worse (but funny!). Tweet