"Failure isn't in not reaching your goal but in having no goal to reach."

-- Benjamin E. Mays

#Swimming Quotes #Goal Quotes #Reaching Quotes

“As Iraq erupts in civil war and America again contemplates intervention, that unfinished business should give new urgency to the question of how the United States military controlled the media coverage of its long involvement there and in Afghanistan.”

Source : "The Fog Machine of War" by Chelsea Manning, www.nytimes.com. June 14, 2014.
“Jellyfish serve as a model for bioengineers for the same reason yeast were once so valuable to geneticists: they're simple to deconstruct.”
“I love cold, rainy weather.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“A life truly lived constantly burns away veils of illusion, burns away what is no longer relevant, gradually reveals our essence, until, at last, we are strong enough to stand in our naked truth.”

Source : "Soul Food, Sex, and Space". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. August 24, 2017.
“The panic attacks - I still have them. They started when I was around 8. They always have to do with my death”
“People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.”

Source : Wally Lamb (2011). “She's Come Undone”, p.464, Simon and Schuster
“I'm finally locked into the now, and it's great.”
“I already get 10 job offers a year, which is more than I can handle anyway.”

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