"I grew up in an area of a lot of growth, in Orange County, California, and spent most of my youth on the beach. I had witnessed the degradation of our Back Bay and the increased number of closed beach days over the years."

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Source : Source: www.nbcnews.com

Aaron Peirsol

#Beach Quotes #California Quotes #Numbers Quotes

“Theres this unspoken club where you say to each other: Oh God, if they only knew how ordinary I was, they wouldnt be interested. That includes movie stars and politicians.”
“Who gets up early to discover the moment light begins?”
“To worship God 'in spirit and in truth' is first and foremost a way of saying that we must worship God by means of Christ. In him the reality has dawned and the shadows are being swept away (Hebrews 8:13). Christian worship is new covenant worship; it is gospel-inspired worship; it is Christ-centered worship; it is cross-focused worship.”
“Music and friends are the most important to me really, it's all I ever do.”
“Fishing, by its very nature, nourishes the imagination, feeding it with a potent fuel of hope and desire.”
“That's the thing that always stuck out to me - the idea that quantity becomes quality. I always took it to mean if you do anything enough, if you keep putting effort in, eventually something will happen, with or without you. You don't have to have faith when you start out, you just have to dedicate yourself to practice as if you have it.”
“Honor the sacred. Honor the Earth, our Mother. Honor all with whom we share the Earth Walk in balance and beauty.”
“I don't want to know how you did it. I want to believe you are magic.”

Source : Holly Goldberg Sloan (2013). “Counting by 7s”, p.211, Penguin

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