"When you stand at the bottom of the mountain and look up at the mountaintop, the path looks hard and stony, and the top is obscured by clouds. But when you reach the top and you look down, you realize that there are a thousand paths that could have brought you to that place."

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Source : Roz Savage (2009). “Rowing the Atlantic: Lessons Learned on the Open Ocean”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

Roz Savage

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“Charity work shouldn't be bragged about. It's just something you're supposed to do...I do it because I feel like that's what God wanted me to do. It's as simple as that.”
“Any historical narrative is a bundle of silences.”
“In this interconnected universe, every improvement we make in our private world improves the world at large for everyone. We all float on the collective level of consciousness of mankind, so that any increment we add comes back to us. We all add to our common buoyancy by our efforts to benefit life. It is a scientific fact that what is good for you is good for me.”
“Iblis (satan) himself recognizes the Lordship of Allah, but wants the human being to forget it”
“Wake up! No one is going to save you. No one is going to take care of your family or your retirement. No one is going to â€œmake thingsâ€ work out for you. The only way to do so is to utilize every moment of every day at 10X levels.”
“A young man with good health and a poor appetite can save up money.”
“Demons do not cry. You became a demon, because you couldn't cry anymore right? Humans cry and when their tears finally run dry, there's nothing left, not a demon nor a monster and one final prayer for death. So, laugh demon. Laugh that arrogant laugh of your and remember I beat you to it.”
“When you tell filthy jokes as if they were all really serious, and happening all in the life of one family, it becomes a farcical situation. Imagine if you had a script that was imposed on your life - we all do in a certain way, from society, or family, the need to make money, biology, death. But you will have a certain latitude, or freedom, to read the script in your own way.”

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