"I swam my brains out."

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Mark Spitz

#Brain Quotes #Olympics Games Quotes

“I think Shakespeare had a lot to contribute with his understanding of the human condition,”
“You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have.”

Source : Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.84, Penguin
“I feel like I'm nothing without wildlife. They are the stars. I feel awkward without them.”
“Christianity is not a religion for the masses, let alone for all. Cultivated by few and translated into deeds, it is one of the most splendid blossoms that can grow in the soul of a good man.”
“Action is hope. There is no hope without action.”
“Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors.”
“To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.”
“When we enter the landscape to learn something, we are obligated, I think, to pay attention rather than constantly to pose questions. To approach the land as we would a person, by opening an intelligent conversation. And to stay in one place, to make of that one, long observation a fully dilated experience. We will always be rewarded if we give the land credit for more than we imagine, and if we imagine it as being more complex even than language. In these ways we begin, I think, to find a home, to sense how to fit a place.”

Source : FaceBook post by Barry Lopez from Sep 21, 2016

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