I hate storms, but calms undermine my spirits.
BERNARD MOITESSIERMy real log is written in the sea and sky; the sails talking with the rain and the stars amid the sounds of the sea, the silences full of secret things between my boat and me, like the times I spent as a child listening to the forest talk.
More Bernard Moitessier Quotes
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A sailor’s joys are as simple as a child’s.
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My real log is written in the sea and sky; the sails talking with the rain and the stars amid the sounds of the sea, the silences full of secret things between my boat and me, like the times I spent as a child listening to the forest talk.
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I am a citizen of the most beautiful nation on earth, a nation whose laws are harsh yet simple, a nation that never cheats, which is immense and without borders, where life is lived in the present.
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You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes, that’s all.
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The questions that used to bother me at times, do not weigh anything before the immensity of a wake so close to the sky and filled with the wind of the sea
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In this limitless nation, this nation of wind, light, and peace, there is no other ruler besides the sea.
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