"There is... nothing greater than touching the shore after crossing some great body of water knowing that I've done it with my own two arms and legs."

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Source : FaceBook post by Diana Nyad from Jan 14, 2014

Diana Nyad

#Two Quotes #Knowing Quotes #Water Quotes

“In schools, including universities, most resources are spent to purchase the time and motivation of a limited number of people to take up predetermined problems in a ritually defined setting. The most radical alternative to school would be a network or service which gave each man the same opportunity to share his current concern with others motivated by the same concern.”
“He gets a little hot sometimes, but that's fine. It shows he wants to win...he fires at pins. I'd rather have someone miss some cuts who's shooting at pins and playing aggressively.”
“Chihiro, huh? Her real name's Chihiro? Can't beat the power of love.”
“There is little more powerful than when truth joins action.”
“Utopianism substitutes glorious predictions and unachievable promises for knowledge, science, and reason, while laying claim to them all.”
“A book is not only written - after it's finished it starts writing you, the writer. You become its notebook, its sheet of paper on which it forces you to think and rethink your original ideas, your topics, your research, actually everything.”
“For it is the bitter grief of theology and its blessed task, too, always to have to seek (because it does not clearly have present to it at the time)...always providing that one has the courage to ask questions, to be dissatisfied, to think with the mind and heart one ACTUALLY has, and not with the mind and heart one is SUPPOSED TO have.”
“If we save the planet and have a society of inequality, we wouldn't have saved much.”

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