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Stop Drifting, Start Rowing: One Woman's Search for Happiness and Meaning Alone on the Pacific QUOTES

Stop Drifting, Start Rowing: One Woman's Search for Happiness and Meaning Alone on the Pacific QUOTES

1 " I have tried hard to be a good person and to leave the world a better place. To feel that I have in any small way succeeded is to me a prize beyond measure, the most wonderful wealth that I could ask for, a form of prosperity that I would wish for the whole world to experience and enjoy. "

― Roz Savage , Stop Drifting, Start Rowing: One Woman's Search for Happiness and Meaning Alone on the Pacific

2 " The Milky Way swooped diagonally across the heavens, reminding me of my utter insignificance, and at the same time my complete interconnection with everything. I was just a tiny speck of consciousness, and yet I was consciousness itself. "

― Roz Savage , Stop Drifting, Start Rowing: One Woman's Search for Happiness and Meaning Alone on the Pacific

3 " I stopped rowing for a moment to glug down some water, but it was warm, tasted of plastic, and failed to refresh. I yearned for an ice-cold drink—preferably one with bubbles and alcohol in it. "

― Roz Savage , Stop Drifting, Start Rowing: One Woman's Search for Happiness and Meaning Alone on the Pacific

4 " It felt as if everything that had happened so far in my life had been leading me to this point, preparing me for this task, and that I was uniquely equipped to pursue this quest. It was a perfect collision of personality, past experience, purpose, and timing. "

― Roz Savage , Stop Drifting, Start Rowing: One Woman's Search for Happiness and Meaning Alone on the Pacific

5 " The restorative effect of a tasty dinner is quite remarkable. When the going gets tough, the tough get cooking. "

― Roz Savage , Stop Drifting, Start Rowing: One Woman's Search for Happiness and Meaning Alone on the Pacific