Swim Quotes - Page 36

• The Buddha described his teaching as "going against the stream." The unflinching light of mindful awareness reveals the extent to which we are tossed along in the stream of past conditioning and habit. The moment we decide to stop and look at what is going on (like a swimmer suddenly changing course to swim upstream instead of downstream), we find ourselves battered by powerful currents we had never even suspected - precisely because until that moment we were largely living at their command.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Buddhist, Powerful, Teaching

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• If you ever know a man who tries to drown his sorrows, kindly inform him his sorrows know how to swim.

  Pittacus Lore

  Men, Sorrow, Trying

  "The Power of Six". Book by Pittacus Lore, 2011.

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• I've decided that if I had my life to live over again, I would not only climb more mountains, swim more rivers, and watch more sunsets; I wouldn't only jettison my hot water bottle, raincoat, umbrella, parachute, and raft; I would not only go barefoot earlier in the spring and stay out later in the fall; but I would devote not one more minute to monitoring my spiritual growth. No, not one.

  Brennan Manning

  Spiritual, Spring, Fall

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• Bliss is the ocean, a towel on the sand, the sun out, the chance to swim in waves or walk dragging a stick behind you, a good book, a cold drink.

  Deb Caletti

  Ocean, Book, Towels

  Powell’s Books Interview, debcaletti.com. 2007.

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• The schizophrenic is drowning in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight. Edgar Cayce made the same observation in his readings

  Joseph Campbell

  Reading, Water, Delight

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• You can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is "If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim

  Jeannette Walls

  Children, Parent, Challenges

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim

  Jeannette Walls

  Want, Figures, Ifs

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too.

  Mary Oliver

  Might, Way, Persons

  Mary Oliver (2016). “Upstream: Selected Essays”, p.15, Penguin

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• If you want to learn to swim you have to throw yourself in the water.

  Bruce Lee

  Water, Want, Ifs

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• Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running - that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach.

  Jack Kerouac

  Running, Beach, Wine

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.7, Penguin

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• Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like anything else. What is the other text, the original? I have no answer. I suppose it is the source, the deep sea where ideas swim, and one catches them in nets of words and swings them shining into the boat... where in this metaphor they die and get canned and eaten in sandwiches.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Art, Writing, Swings

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• It's like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging.

  Mary Daly

  Swimming, Like You

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• We've learned to fly the air like birds, we've learned to swim the seas like fish, and yet we haven't learned to walk the earth as brothers and sisters

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Brother, Air, Sea

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• I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

  Neil Armstrong

  Thinking, Moon, Challenges

  Neil Armstrong's remarks at the Apollo mission press conference (1969), as quoted in Norman Mailer "Of a Fire on the Moon", 1970, and in "First Man: The Life of Ronnie Petch the bender" by James R. Hansen, 2005.

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• The power of one is above all things the power to believe in yourself, ofen well beyond any latent ability you may have previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete, the body is simply the means it uses to run faster or longer, jump higher, shoot straighter, kick better, swim harder, hit further, or box better.

  Bryce Courtenay

  Running, Believe, Athlete

  Bryce Courtenay (2006). “The Power Of One”, p.676, Penguin UK

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• God is coming! God is coming! All the element we swim in, this existence, echoes ahead the advent. God is coming! Can't you feel it?

  Walter Wangerin

  Echoes, Elements, Advent

  Walter Wangerin (1989). “The manger is empty: stories in time”, Harpercollins

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• Never before had I known the sudden quiver of understanding that travels from word to brain to heart, the way a new language can move, coil, swim into life under the eyes, the almost savage leap of comprehension, the instantaneous, joyful release of meaning, the way the words shed their printed bodies in a flash of heat and light.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Moving, Heart, Eye

  Elizabeth Kostova (2010). “The Historian”, p.147, Hachette UK

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• A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go.

  Andrew Schneider

  Water, Choices, Three

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• But, this dark place is not the end. Remember that the darkness of night precedes the dawn. And as long as your heart still beats, this is not the death of it. You don’t have to die here. Sometimes, the ocean floor is only a stop on the journey. And it is when you are at this lowest point, that you are faced with a choice. You can stay there at the bottom, until you drown. Or you can gather pearls and rise back up—stronger from the swim, and richer from the jewels.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Ocean, Heart, Dark

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• I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.

  Frida Kahlo

  Sorrow, Drank, Things Learned

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• But dare rather to quit the platform, plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, & swim far, so shall you come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience, that shall explain & overlook the old. Trust your emotion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Peace, Power

  "A Year with Emerson: A Daybook".

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• Independent will is our capacity to act. It gives us the power to transcend our paradigms, to swim upstream, to rewrite our scripts, to act based on principle rather than reacting based on emotion or circumstance.

  Stephen Covey

  Freedom, Independent, Giving

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1995). “First Things First”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• Forever is composed of nows.

  Emily Dickinson

  Happiness, Carpe Diem, Power

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.2106, Delphi Classics

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