"I am like a mariner born and bred on board a buccaneer brig whose soul has become so inured to storm and strife that if cast ashore he would weary and languish no matter how alluring the shady groves and how bright the gentle sun."

-- Mikhail Lermontov

#Soul Quotes #Storm Quotes #Boards Quotes

“I'm pretty confident.”
“Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.”
“It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it.”
“On the first day of May the people of the crofter townland are up betimes and busy as bees about to swarm. This is the day of migrating, bho baile gu beinn (from townland to moorland), from the winter homestead to the summer sheiling. The summer of their joy is come, the summer of the sheiling, the song, the pipe and the dance, when the people ascend the hill to the clustered bothies, overlooking the distant sea from among the fronded ferns and fragrant heather, where neighbour meets neighbour, and lover meets lover.”
“A nasty day! A nasty day! 'Twas thus I heard a critic say Because the skies were bleak and grayâ€” And yet it somehow seemed to me The day was all that it should be. I looked it very closely o'er; Its hours still were twenty-four, With sixty minutes eachâ€”no lessâ€” For deeds of good and helpfulness; And every second full of chance To give the day significance; And every hour full of growth For everybody but the slothâ€” I couldn't see it quite that way, For though the skies were bleak and gray The day itself, it seemed to me, Was all a day could rightly be.”

Source : John Kendrick Bangs (1920). “The Cheery Way: A Bit of Verse for Every Day”
“It has perhaps always been the case that the waging of peace is the hardest form of leadership of all.”
“Today in Ukraine, many people struggle to survive, older ones often see the breakdown of the Soviet system as a loss of stability and security for average people, and therefore a certain hostility to quickly acquired wealth is from their point of view quite understandable at the first look.”
“All just laws condemn cruelty.”

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