'Do one thing every day that scares you.' - Eleanor Roosevelt

'Most people are as happy as they make up their mind to be.' - Abraham Lincoln

'Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.'  - Helen Keller 

'Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.' - Ralph Waldo Emerson 

'Luck is when opportunity knocks and you answer.' - Anon

'Life is not a dress rehearsal.' - Anon

'The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.' - Abraham Lincoln

'I hated to go ashore, for the boat looked smaller every time I left. Then one morning I awoke, looked more closely at my floating home, and saw everything in its true perspective: the Nengro wasn't small, she was compact.'  - Francis Brenton  

'Dreams are necessary to life.'  - Anais Nin

'Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.' - Anatole France

'It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.' - Dale Carnegie

'People with the boat bug are never happier than when they are poking around marinas, fantasizing about owning other people's boats. It's a disease that costs more to cure than any other single common learning disability."  - Randy Wayne White from his book 'The Mangrove Coast'

'To start the Great Loop trip is heavenly, to finish divine.'  - Janet

'When life hands you scraps, make a quilt.'  - Quilter's proverb

'Life offers you a thousand chances - all you have to do is take one.'  - Frances Mayes - from her book 'Under the Tuscan Sun'

'Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.'  - Anon

'Cruising is often comprised of days of doing boat maintenance in exotic locations.'  - Anon

'It takes several years to learn to handle a yacht reasonably well, and a lifetime to admit how much more there is to learn.'  - Maurice Griffiths

'Cruising has two main pleasures. One is to go out into wider waters from a sheltered place. The other is to go into a sheltered place from wide waters.'  - Howard Bloomfield

'This is the story of an American family that took to sea - mine. The siren sang - of open blue water, mysterious islands, remote coves, silent rivers, far-off ports, and tranquil lazy days away from the toils of the shorebound. Of these I tell you now - and of some other things she didn't mention.'  - Marjorie Cahn Brazer - from her book 'Wind Off The Dock'

'The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore. ' - Dale Carnegie

'I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving; to reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. ' - Oliver Wendell Holmes

'Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need: a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing. ' - Jerome K. Jerome

'There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea. ' - Joseph Conrad

'Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. ' - Mark Twain

'The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.' - William Arthur Ward

'The only record I would cherish would be for the longest circumnavigation, the most dilly-dallying on the way.' - Gwenda Cornell

'Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.' - Kenneth Grahame

'The lovely thing about cruising is that planning usually turns out to be of little use.' - Dom Degnon

'I believe in the aboriginal line of thinking that life's adventures are the verses and choruses of your unique song, and when it is over, you are dead. So far, I am still singing, but I would point out that adventures don't come calling like unexpected cousins visiting from out of town. You have to go looking for them, and that is exactly how I wound up on Cayo Loco.' - Jimmy Buffet - line from the book  'A Salty Piece of Land'