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“A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there.”

Knows Want Doe Earth Wind Sail Captains

Author:Ami Ayalon

“Once we agree on the future, the present will be much easier. A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there. We have first to decide where we want to go, where we want to sail.”

Knows Want Firsts Doe Earth Wind Easier Agree Sail Captains

Author:Ami Ayalon

“Those who spread their sails in the right way to the winds of the earth will always find themselves born by a current towards the open seas.”

Way Earth Opportunity Born Sea Wind Currents Spread Sail Right Way

Author:Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats; Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails.”

Heart Sweet Wind Hero Feds Jail Sail Royal Chamber

Book:The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was to come and wait for the turn of the tide.”

Made Turns Waiting Darkness Wind Rivers Bounds Calm Tides Flood Sail Anchors

Book:Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad

Source: Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad

“Sundown. The distressed sloop, its mainmast shattered by lightning, its sails ripped by the winds of the open sea, drifted into the small, quiet beach of a private island in the Lesser Antilles”

Sea Wind Quiet Beach Islands Lightning Sail Shattered Ripped

Book:The Scorpio Illusion

Source: The Scorpio Illusion

“Mastery is the rudder, Mystery is the sail and Magic the wind to move you in your chosen direction.”

Moving Magic Mystery Wind Chosen Mastery Sail Rudders

Author:Jack White

“Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the action of velocity. The sails are driven by air in motion - by wind.”

Want Action Used Fall Water Air Wind Driven Instance Germany Sail Holland Velocity Windmills Falling Water

Book:Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays

Source: Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays

“Evolution is fundamentally creative, and when we align ourselves with the evolutionary movements of consciousness, the universe itself puts wind in our sails. Quantum thinking goes beyond the thoughts we're aware of; it includes unconscious processing, which doesn't just expand our boundaries, but can also free us from the suffering that conscious processing (sometimes known as 'the monkey mind') creates.”

Thinking Inspirational Mind Sometimes Suffering Universe Consciousness Known Creative Movement Wind Evolution Conscious Boundaries Unconscious Quantum Sail Monkeys Processing Monkey Mind

Author:Amit Goswami

“The forces of Hannibal, Drake and Napoleon moved at best with the horses' gallop or the speed of wind on sail. Now, aviation brings a new concept of time and distance to the affairs of men. It demands adaptability to change, places a premium on quickness of thought and speed of action.”

Men Action Force Wind Demand Concepts Horse Moved Distance Affair Speed Aviation Sail Adaptability Premium Quickness Concept Of Time Time And Distance

Author:Charles Lindbergh

“Melancholy and remorse form the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality; we run aground sooner than the flat-bottomed pleasure-lovers but we venture out in weather that would sink them and we choose our direction.”

Reality Running Form Pleasure Wind Lovers Weather Flats Melancholy Sail Venture Remorse Keel

Author:Cyril Connolly

“Ah, only he who knows where he sails, knows what wind is good, and a fair wind for him.”

Knows Purpose Wind Fairs Sail

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“It seems whenever we have a little adversity, the emotions drop. We've fallen out of the race, and it kind of takes the wind out of your sails.”

Kind Littles Seems Race Emotion Wind Adversity Fallen Sail

Author:Wes Walz

“We're just a fragile team right now. It seems like when we have a little bit of adversity, when something goes wrong, you can feel it on the bench, it kind of sinks. Unless we get a goal or something really positive happens, it's tough. I think falling out of the playoff race takes the wind out of your sails for sure.”

Thinking Feels Kind Littles Seems Happens Fall Bits Goal Race Team Wind Right Now Little Bit Tough Adversity Fragile Sail Benches Playoffs Really Positive

Author:Wes Walz

“Weirdly, I was still trying to be the older brother, and trying to get him [Tom Berninger] to try to be more like me a little bit. Or not be more like me but... I was frustrated that he sometimes let things stop him in his life, and he let the wind get knocked out of his sails a few times.”

Trying Littles Stills Sometimes Bits Brother Wind Little Bit Like Me Toms Frustrated Sail Older Brother

Author:Matt Berninger

“I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.”

Inspirational Funny Dark Middle Wind Boat Passages Steady Sail Sailing Nautical Boats And Sailing Sailing And Wind Sailing And Love Smooth Sailing Middle Passage

Author:Arthur Ashe

“There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.”

“Never defend yourself; agree with your critics, it takes the wind out of their sails.”

Wind Agree Critics Sail

Author:Fay Weldon

“One good reason for the popularity of "reductionism" among the philosophical outposts of the Western Establishment is that it can be, and is, used as a device for trying to take the wind, so to speak, out of the sails of Marxism. . . . In essence reductionism is a kind of anti-Marxist caricature of Marxist determinism. It is what anti-Marxists pretend that Marxist determinism is.”

Trying Kind Reason Used Speak Wind Essence Philosophical Western Devices Establishment Popularity Sail Marxism Speaks Out Marxist Caricatures Determinism Reductionism

Book:Cockburn Sums Up: An Autobiography

Source: Cockburn Sums Up: An Autobiography

“We need to stop burning fossil fuels and utilize only wind, water, and solar power with all generation of power coming from individual or small community units like windmills, waterwheels, and solar panels. Sea transportation should be by sail...Air transportation should be by solar powered blimps when air transportation is necessary.”

“When the winds of life don't hit your sails, you grab the oars of life and you start pushing.”

Wind Pushing Sail Oar

Author:Greg Plitt

“To live as I incline, or not to live at all: so do I wish; so wisheth also the holiest. But alas! how have I still - inclination? Have I-still a goal? A haven towards which MY sail is set?A good wind? Ah, he only who knoweth WHITHER he saileth, knoweth what wind is good, and a fair wind for him.What still remaineth to me? A heart weary and flippant; and unstable will; fluttering wings; a broken backbone.This seeking for MY home: O Zarathustra, dost thou know that this seeking hath been MY home-sickening; it eateth me up.”

Source: Thus spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None

“Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.”

Life Inspirational Knowledge Sea Mankind Positive Wind Sail Sailing Vessel Nautical Sailing And The Sea Thoughts And Thinking Wind Blowing Sailing And Wind Sailing And Love North Wind

Author:Augustus Hare

“The shortest route is not the most direct one, but rather the one where the most favorable winds swell our sails:Mthat is the lesson that seafarers teach. Not to abide by this lesson is to be obstinate: here, firmness of character is tainted with stupidity.”

Character Teach Wind Lessons Direct Stupidity Sail Routes Firmness Obstinate Tainted Obstinacy

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Sweet and low, sweet and low, Wind of the western sea, Low, low, breathe and blow, Wind of the western sea! Over the rolling waters go, Come from the dying moon, and blow, Blow him again to me; While my little one, while my pretty one, sleeps. Sleep and rest, sleep and rest, Father will come to thee soon; Rest, rest, on mother's breast, Father will come to thee soon; Father will come to his babe in the nest, Silver sails all out of the west Under the silver moon: Sleep, my little one, sleep, my pretty one, sleep.”

Littles Mother Father Water Sleep Sea Dying Sweet Wind Moon Lows West Western Blow Breathe Thee Breasts Silver Rolling Sail Nests Babe

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Reason can no more influence the will, and operate as a motive, than the eyes which show a man his road can enable him to move from place to place, or that a ship provided with a compass can sail without a wind.”

Men Reason Shows Eye Moving Influence Wind Ships Motive Sail Compass

Author:Richard Whately

“Self-love is always the mainspring, more or less concealed, of our actions; it is the wind which swells the sails, without which the ship could not go.”

Self Action Love Is Wind Self Love Ships Sail Our Actions Concealed

Author:Emilie du Chatelet

“I do feel my fan base, my community understands me and appreciates me very deeply, and that is the wind in my sails to keep doing what I am doing. I know that my work really inspires people and they tell me that all the time, and so that's wonderful.”

People Knows Feels Community Wonderful Fans Inspire Wind Appreciate Sail Very Deep Understand Me Appreciate Me

Author:Ondi Timoner

“I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.”

“Every object is beautiful in motion; a ship under sail, trees gently agitated with the wind, and a fine woman dancing, are three instances in point”

Beautiful Three Nature Environment Tree Objects Wind Fine Dancing Ships Instance Sail Natural Environment

Book:Letters of Mrs. Adams: the wife of John Adams

Source: Letters of Mrs. Adams: the wife of John Adams

“Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea Loves t'have his sails filled with a lusty wind, Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack, And his ship run on her side so low That she drinks water, and her keel plows air.”

Life Giving Running Spirit Sides Water Air Sea Wind Drink Lows Give Me Filled Ships This Life Rough Cracks Sail Yards Drink Water Masts Keel Rough Seas

Book:The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles Duke of Byron

Source: The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles Duke of Byron

“The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.”

Way Would Be Passion Impossible Wind Sail Vessel

Author:Voltaire

“Well, well, the world must turn upon its axis, And all mankind turn with it, heads or tails, And live and die, make love and pay our taxes, And as the veering winds shift, shift our sails.”

World Wells Dies Turns Pay Mankind Wind Taxes Sail Tails Making Love Axes Heads Or Tails

Book:DON JUAN

Source: DON JUAN

“Hoist the sails of your own spirit to catch the winds of God.”

Spirit Wind Sail

Author:Ralph Washington Sockman

“Governments are the sails, the people the wind, the country is the ship and time is the sea.”

People Country Government Sea Wind Ships Sail

Author:Ludwig Borne

“To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.”

Life Inspirational Sometimes Motivational Action Lying Goal Wind Sail Sailing Anchors Taking Action Port Sailing And The Sea Sailing And Wind Sailing And Love

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

“Wisdom, health, life and love cannot be found in trying to control the wind, but rather in harnessing the wind in the sails of receptive engagement of the present moment.”

Trying Moments Found Wind And Love Present Moment Engagement Sail Life And Love Receptive

Book:Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation

Source: Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation

“Genius is both the sail and the wind; that's why he continues his journey without stopping!”

Journey Wind Genius Sail Stopping

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Grief is like the wind. When it's blowing hard, you adjust your sails and run before it. If it blows too hard, you stay in the harbor, close the hatches and don't take calls. When it's gentle, you go sailing, have a picnic, take a swim.”

Ifs Hard Running Grief Wind Blow Gentle Swim Sail Sailing Harbors Picnics

Author:Barbara Ascher

“The hope of heaven under troubles is like wind and sails to the soul.”

Soul Heaven Trouble Wind Sail

Book:Letters of the Rev. Samuel Rutherford

Source: Letters of the Rev. Samuel Rutherford

“When we think of [John F. Kennedy], he is without a hat, standing in the wind and weather. He was impatient of topcoats and hats, preferring to be exposed, and he was young enough and tough enough to enjoy the cold and the wind of those times.... It can be said of him, as of few men in a like position, that he did not fear the weather, and did not trim his sails, but instead challenged the wind itself, to improve its direction and to cause it to blow more softly and more kindly over the world and its people.”

People Thinking Men World Said Enough Young Causes Enjoy Position Wind Cold Tough Standing Blow Weather Hats Exposed Sail Impatient

Author:E. B. White

“Never set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind.”

Children Sea Wind Flats Sail Versatility Blood Relation

Book:The Letters of D. H. Lawrence

Source: The Letters of D. H. Lawrence

“Sometimes a party must sail against the wind. We cannot heed the call of those who say it is time to furl the sail. The party that tore itself apart over Vietnam in the 1960s cannot afford to tear itself apart today over budget cuts in basic social programs.”

Sometimes Today Social Party Cutting Tears Wind Program Budgets Vietnam Sail 1960s Heed Social Programs Budget Cuts

Author:Edward Kennedy

“... everything in the world is a force, a pull or a push. In order for us to be pushed or pulled we need to be like a sail, like a kite in the wind. But if we have a hole in the middle of our luminosity, the force goes through it and never acts upon us.”

Ifs World Needs Order Force Middle Wind Holes Sail Kites

Author:Carlos Castaneda

“True prayer is the trading of the heart with God, and the heart never comes into spiritual commerce with the ports of heaven until God the Holy Ghost puts wind into the sails and speeds the ship into its haven.”

Heart Spiritual Heaven Prayer Havens Wind Holy Speed Ghost Ships Commerce Sail Trading Holy Ghost Port

Book:Spurgeon on Prayer & Spiritual Warfare (6 In 1 Anthology)

Source: Spurgeon on Prayer & Spiritual Warfare (6 In 1 Anthology)

“The legislator is like the navigator of a ship on the high seas. He can steer the vessel on which he sails, but he cannot alter its construction, raise the wind, or stop the waves from swelling beneath his feet.”

Sea Feet Wind Raises Wave Ships Construction Sail Vessel Steers Legislators Swelling High Seas Navigators

Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale; Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.”

Stills Reason Passion Walks Wind Ocean Calm Storm Cards Sail Gale Vast Ocean

Book:The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe

Source: The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe

“The wind of divine grace is always blowing. You just need to spread your sail. Whenever you do anything, do it with your whole heart concentrated on it. Think day and night, I am of the essence of that Supreme Being-Consciousness-Bliss. What fear and anxiety have I?”

Thinking Needs Heart Whole Night Consciousness Grace Divine Wind Anxiety Essence Spread Supreme Bliss Sail Day And Night Divine Grace Supreme Being

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“I certainly never feel discouraged. I can't myself raise the winds that might blow us or this ship into a better world. But I can at least put up the sail so that when the winds comes, I can catch it.”

World Feels I Can Might Wind Raises Blow Ships Sail Discouraged

Author:E. F. Schumacher

“I cannot predict the wind but I can have my sail ready.”

I Can Ready Wind Sail

Author:E. F. Schumacher