After watching the movie “The Boys in the Boat”, I checked out the book’s Goodreads page. I immediately found two quotes that resonated (and shared them here) and bookmarked the page for future reading. I finally got back to this and I thought I’d share a few more that resonated.
“It takes energy to get angry. It eats you up inside. I can’t waste my energy like that and expect to get ahead.”
“The wood…taught us about survival, about overcoming difficulty, about prevailing over adversity, but it also taught us something about the underlying reason for surviving in the first place. Something about infinite beauty, about undying grace, about things larger and greater than ourselves. About the reasons we were all here.”
“What mattered more than how hard a man rowed was how well everything he did in the boat harmonized with what the other fellows were doing. And a man couldn’t harmonize with his crewmates unless he opened his heart to them. He had to care about his crew.”
“Perhaps the seeds of redemption lay not just in perseverance, hard work, and rugged individualism. Perhaps they lay in something more fundamental—the simple notion of everyone pitching in and pulling together.”
Beautifully written. These were a few among many that resonated.
