"Despite what I had acchieved, I don't for a moment think I am any braver or better than anyone else.Â This is how I attempt to explain what gives me the stregnth to do what I do; when that thunderbolt of an idea first hit me and inspired me to row across oceans, it filled me with a sense of purpose so strong that it overcame my fears.Â Even when boredom, frustration, fatigue or despair threatened to overwhelm me, it was that powerful sense of purpose that kept me going."

-- Roz Savage

#Strong Quotes #Powerful Quotes #Ocean Quotes

“I have taken care of everything in the course of my life, only not for death, and now I have to die completely unprepared.”
“In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God.”

Source : "Ravi Shankar Dead: Indian Sitar Virtuoso Dies At 92". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2012.
“I'd like to be known for stepping up, and encouraging others to do the same.”

Source : Source: www.today.com
“Sometimes it is easier to see the light when you stand partly in the darkness.”

Source : Garth Nix (2010). “The Keys to the Kingdom #1: Mister Monday”, p.202, Scholastic Inc.
“My acting's very understated. I think my sad and happy don't play that differently onscreen.”

Source : "Bret McKenzie of Flight Of The Conchords". Interview with Amelie Gillette, www.avclub.com. July 27, 2007.
“I could forgive my own brother of anything, at the end of the day, because we're brothers. You can't get in between that blood.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that. We started with a humble log house, milk cow, garden-raised our own food, killed a hog every year in the fall, and had the meat hanging up in the smokehouse - that was our childhood, me and ol' Si.”
“Take out the kernel of spiritual truth with any faith, and what is left is dogma.”

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