You don’t command wind in the direction it blows, but you command a ship in the direction it sails.
The storm only comes to teach you how to skillfully sail your ship.
When all seems to be against you, remember, a ship sometimes has to sail against the current, not with it.
Life is not being sure what will come next or how it will come. We guess at everything we do. We take leap after leap in the dark and that's the joy of living and the beauty of faith. When we grow tired, when we sit still, that's when we begin to die.... One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
We are all born in a little port but not all of us sail the vast oceans! Majority remains in the port!
She found out that having something to do prevented you from feeling seasick, and that even a job like scrubbing a deck could be satisfying, if it was done in a seamanlike way. She was very taken with this notion, and later on she folded the blankets on her bunk in a seamanlike way, and put her possessions in the closet in a seamanlike way, and used 'stow' instead of 'tidy' for the process of doing so. After two days at sea, Lyra decided that this was the life for her.