“Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.”
Bird by Bird
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Anne Lamott146
Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist 1954Related quotes
Sarah Orne Jewett book The Country of the Pointed Firs
Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896), Ch. 7
“What's the point? was my attitude. We're all just going to die and then NOT be let on the boat.”
Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist
Source: Abandon
Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer
Daily Telegram #1019, Thoughts Of Will Rogers On The Late Slumps In Stocks (31 October 1929)
Daily telegrams
“Don’t look for other people to validate your dreams. If it feels right, just go for it.”
Lewis Pugh (1969) Environmental campaigner, maritime lawyer and endurance swimmer
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21 Yaks And A Speedo (2013)
Herman Melville (1818–1891) American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet
Hawthorne and His Mosses (1850)
“And o'er them the lighthouse looked lovely as hope,—
That star of life's tremulous ocean.”
Paul Moon James (1780–1854) British poet and banker
The Beacon, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Edwin Markham (1852–1940) American poet
Source: The Shoes of Happiness, and Other Poems (1913), The Crowning Hour, II
Context: p>If this is a dream, then perhaps our dreaming
Can touch life's height to a finer fire:
Who knows but the heavens and all their seeming
Were made by the heart's desire?One thing shines clear in the heart's sweet reason,
One lightning over the chasm runs —
That to turn from love is the world's one treason
That darkens all the suns.</p
Abby Sunderland (1993) Camera Assistant, Inspirational Speaker and Sailor
Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011), p. 111