#sea

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#against #also #boils #brought #character

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#been #could #each #else #experience

Women often postpone their lives, thinking that if they're not with a partner then it doesn't really count. They're still searching for their prince, in a way. And as much as we don't discuss that, because it's too embarrassing and too sad, I think it really does exist. ↗

— Jane Campion

#count #discuss #does #embarrassing #exist

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. ↗

— Albert Camus

#be happy #consists #continue #happiness #happy

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. ↗

— John Updike

#fiction #hugging #open #poetry #sailing

Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism; the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young. ↗

— Henry Seidel Canby

#directing #diseases #dogmatism #intellects #lives

When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea. ↗

— Eric Cantona

#follow #into #sea #seagulls #think