"Death is just the birth of yet another odyssey."
- Anthony T. Hincks
"but sing no more this bitter tale that wears my heart away"
- Homer
"Many of us begin this art with little to no understanding of what we are getting ourselves into. Then, maybe a year or a black belt later, we realize this odyssey we have embarked upon and rest happil..."
- Chris Matakas
"For I say there is no other thing that is worse than the sea is for breaking a man, even though he may a very strong one."
"Renunciation isn't a moral imperative or a form of self-denial. It's simply cooperation with the way things are: for moments do pass away, one after the other. Resisting this natural unfolding doesn't..."
- Norman Fischer
"But they could neither of them persuade me, for there is nothing dearer to a man than his own country and his parents, and however splendid a home he may have in a foreign country, if it be far from f..."
"And when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make his passage homeward, trials and dangers, even so, attended him even in Ithaca, near those he loved."
"Where we sail and anchor our heart fill up the multitude odyssey paving to the coming home of our soul."
- Angelica Hopes
"In a time of disorder [Laertes] has returned to the care of the earth, the foundation of life and hope. And Odysseus finds him in an act emblematic of the best and most responsible kind of agriculture..."
- Wendell Berry
"The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law?"
- Bernhard Schlink