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1 " There is something magical and transformational about saying “yes” to God. When you take His hand, step out of that boat (your ordinary, comfortable life), and be brave. Instead of spending your lifetime living in fear and playing it safe, you boldly walk in obedience. God makes you brave. "
― Dana Arcuri , Reinventing You: Simple Steps to Transform Your Body, Mind, & Spirit
2 " Remember as there are people that can help you to roll the boat of your dreams, there are also people who can drill holes under that boat to make it sink. "
― Israelmore Ayivor , Shaping the dream
3 " I once had a drinking contest with an artist on his yacht... It amused him as I took shot after shot, and I realized that this was the reason he'd invited us, his amusement. Looking back, I thought he didn't expect we'd have anything to say, that my questions about the artist's purpose, his existential quest for self in a communally-brutalized past, were not as amusing as they were thought-provoking, but I'll never know. As I swayed like a sailor in drunken bitterness, I felt something had been sacrificed to his art. He'd gone so far out on that boat there was no way for him to come back. I felt he no longer existed and was just the faded intention of color on canvas. His humanity had surely been washed away with the paint thinner. "
― Megan Rich , Six Years of A Floating Life: A Memoir
4 " This is good and hot." " I remember you used to say that about someone I know." He shakes his head. " Give it up, Scotts. That boat sailed, sank, and got towed." " But..." " No. It ain't going to happen." He sits down next to me and I curl up next to him." Nicky, it's hard being a child of your divorce and probably the reason somebody is dead." Nick raises my head with his hands and looks at me and smiles." Life bites, baby girl." " ...and sucks." Amen. "
5 " I looked at the images hanging on the walls, wanting to find those things in her pictures. My favorite was directly across from me: a photo of a beaten, weathered hull of a rowboat. I knew about as much about boats as I did photography, which was next to nothing, but that boat wasn’t going anywhere near the water anytime soon unless the owner decided it would make a mediocre shipwreck to explore while scuba diving. Nevertheless, it faced the out-of-focus lake in the background, almost hopefully, as if it hadn’t yet decided its best days were gone, as if it still dreamed of bobbing peacefully on the waves.“Does that one have a name?” I asked.She smiled. “Seaworthy. "
6 " If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you're doing then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking. It's tough enough getting that boat to shore with everybody rowing let alone when a guy stands up and starts putting his life jacket on. "
