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“Happy the man who from the sea escapes the storm and finds harbor.”

Men Sea He Man Storm Harbors

Author:Euripides

“No woman need fear the effect of absence upon the man who honestly loves her. The needle of the compass, regardless of intervening seas, points forever toward the north. Pitiful indeed is she who fails to be a magnet and blindly becomes a chain.”

Men Needs Forever Failing Sea Effects He Man Absence Honestly Chains Compass Needles Magnet Pitiful Intervening

Book:The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed

Source: The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed

“Gods should be iridescent, like the rainbow in the storm. Man creates a God in his own image, and the gods grow old along with the men that made them... But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to be heard.”

Men Should Made Grows Stuff Sound Heard Sea He Man Storm Rainbow Iridescent

Book:The Plumed Serpent

Source: The Plumed Serpent

“The intellectual is always showing off, the lover is always getting lost. The intellectual runs away. afraid of drowning; the whole business of love is to drown in the sea. Intellectuals plan their repose; lovers are ashamed to rest. The lover is always alone. even surrounded by people; like water and oil, he remains apart. The man who goes to the trouble of giving advice to a lover get nothing. He's mocked by passion. Love is like musk. It attracts attention. Love is a tree, and the lovers are its shade.”

Source: Love's Ripening: Rumi on the Heart's Journey

“When you want to build a ship, then do not drum the men together in order to procure wood, to give instructions or to distribute the work, but teach them longing for the wide endless sea.”

Men Want Giving Together Order Teach Sea He Man Longing Woods Wide Endless Ships Instruction Endless Sea

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“There are only two options for a ship: Either to sail to the sea and fight with the waves or rot in a port! The same is valid for the man!”

Men Two Fighting Sea He Man Wave Ships Sail Port Two Options

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“If you want to build a ship, teach the men to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”

Ifs Men Want Teach Sea He Man Endless Ships Endless Sea

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“How I hate the man who talks about the 'brute creation', with an ugly emphasis on Brute. Only Christians are capable of it. As for me, I am proud of my close kinship with other animals. I take a jealous pride in my Simian ancestry. I like to think that I was once a magnificent hairy fellow living in the trees and that my frame has come down through geological time via sea jelly and worms and Amphioxus, Fish, Dinosaurs, and Apes. Who would exchange these for the pallid couple in the Garden of Eden?”

Source: The Journal of a Disappointed Man