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Letter "V" » voyage
«Each cup of tea represents an imaginary voyage.»
«We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.»
Author: H. P Lovecraft
(Author)
| About:
Civilization,
Humanity,
Ignorance,
Intelligence,
Science
| Keywords:
Infinities, infinity, in the midst, island, live on, meant, midst, placid, seas, voyage
«Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family.»
Author: Joachim Du Bellay
| Keywords:
experienced, fleece, fleeces, Golden Fleece, Happy Family, knowledgeable, returns, Ulysses, voyage
«Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.»
«It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
| About:
Travel
| Keywords:
determines, port, ports, The Coming, voyage, voyaging
«Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best.»
«Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.»
«Curiosity is only in vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Curiosity
| Keywords:
sole, voyage
«He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.'»
«From the narrow vision of 'individual need', man must voyage out into the broad vision of the 'Universal'. When a drop of water falls into the Ocean, it loses its narrow individuality, its name and form, and assumes the form, name and taste of the Ocean itself. If it seeks to live separately as a 'drop', it will soon evaporate and be reduced to non-existence.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
assumes, evaporate, evaporates, separately, voyage
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