Where The Waves Break Upon The Shore Quotes

“As all true gamblers know, the moods of luck, whether bad or good, are as changeable as the winds.”
― T.M Cicinski, Where The Waves Break Upon The Shore

“You must have faith. Many things are possible that seem not to be.”
― T.M Cicinski, Where The Waves Break Upon The Shore

“If you want a good thing to happen, you must try to believe that it will happen, or else you will make it less likely.”
― T.M Cicinski, Where The Waves Break Upon The Shore

“We cannot know what will come. Besides, if it is a choice between knowledge and hope, I would prefer her to have hope.”
― T.M Cicinski, Where The Waves Break Upon The Shore

“Sometimes it is better not to know a bad thing if there is nothing you can do about it... but it is cowardly nonetheless.”
― T.M Cicinski, Where The Waves Break Upon The Shore

“As all true gamblers know, the moods of luck, whether bad or good, are as changeable as the winds. One moment she might be with you, guiding you gently toward some distant paradise you never hoped to see; the next, she could be battering you to death against the rocks. A successful gambler therefore, the old man had said, is not one on whom luck never turns her back, but rather one who knows the moment to take their fate back from her into their own hands.”
― T.M Cicinski, Where The Waves Break Upon The Shore

“Luck is very important... but she does not dictate everything.”
― T.M Cicinski, Where The Waves Break Upon The Shore

“Remember, being brave is not always a virtue. It is better to be wise. Fewer people are hurt by that.”
― T.M Cicinski, Where The Waves Break Upon The Shore

“More often than not, no sooner have you glimpsed a beautiful thing, than it will become a great danger to you in one way or another.”
― T.M Cicinski, Where The Waves Break Upon The Shore

“The old man liked the waves and felt a strange companionship with them, though he was jealous of them also. They were travelling to the same place that he was, yet they would be there long before him and there was nothing along the way that could endanger them or prevent them reaching it.”
― T.M Cicinski, Where The Waves Break Upon The Shore

“The ocean is truly an immeasurably beautiful thing for a man to see," the old man thought. "There are times when she is cruel, but those times are easily forgotten when she is kind and gentle as she is now, or when the sun is on her, warming her and lulling her to sleep.”
― T.M Cicinski, Where The Waves Break Upon The Shore

“If a man has a good heart, and tries to be good to others, he has nothing to fear... If that is not enough to win the esteem of God, then He is a fool, and we have no business wasting our lives pandering to His foolishness.”
― T.M Cicinski, Where The Waves Break Upon The Shore

“Who am I to speculate about how many years God may yet give me? For all I know, He may have decided already that I shall live forever and merely neglected to inform me.”
― T.M Cicinski, Where The Waves Break Upon The Shore

“You are in the spring of your life, little one, and have all the time in the world ahead of you, while for myself, I suspect that midwinter's day has already passed.”
― T.M Cicinski, Where The Waves Break Upon The Shore

“When a man gets to be as old as I am, one of his greatest fears begins to be that he shall one day find himself alone in the world. It is no small thing therefore, for him to be told by one he loves, that his presence is important to them.”
― T.M Cicinski, Where The Waves Break Upon The Shore