"I'm satisfied in a way because this is an eye opener for me, ... I didn't have the success I've always been able to have. I learned a lot."

-- Michael Phelps

#Eye Quotes #Swimming Quotes #Way Quotes

“Iâ€™ve never thought of Playboy, quite frankly, as a sex magazine. I always thought of it as a lifestyle magazine in which sex was one important ingredient.”
“I love my baby like the finest wine, I'll stick with her until the end of time.”
“A Romantic ideology that predates rock glorifies the self-destructive artist as someone who's too honest and delicate for this world... It's not an easy job, and its stresses can take their toll.”
“The two [separate] UIs are both incredibly simple and don't even look like computer programs; they barely need menus. [When combined, they] suddenly look like software.”
“A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky.”

Source : Yoshida Kenko (2009). “Essays in Idleness”, p.11, Cosimo, Inc.
“How then can we change being? By applying the knowledge of the Work through self-observation to ourselves. And remember that you do not change by being told what to do. You only change through seeing what you have to do when you realize what your being is like.”
“I'm reading Our Ecstatic Days, by Steve Erickson. It's an extraordinary journey and the most exciting thing I've found since The Master and Margarita, which I've read about 20 times. I like being taken away somewhere by a book.”

Source : "My Life in Travel" by Sophie Lam, www.independent.co.uk. May 27, 2005.
“Better never to have met you in my dream, than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.”

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