"When I kept surfing, surfing kept me."

-- Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz

#Surfing Quotes

“I don't try to change myself to impress anybody. I'm just who I am.”
“Deep joy is a serene and sober emotion, rarely evinced in open merriment.”
“Society is so tough and expectations are so unrealistic. Could I take better care of myself? Absolutely. I joke all the time that I'm old and I'm getting older and I feel it, so I guess I would rather talk about it with a smile and say, 'Oh God, I'm old!' than spend all my time at the dermatologist. I approach aging with ice cream and a martini.”

Source : intothegloss.com. August 2014.
“I cannot but take notice of the wonderful love of God to mankind, who, in order to encourage obedience to His laws, has annexed a present as well as a future reward to a good life; and has so interwoven our duty and our happiness together that, while we are discharging our obligations to the one, we are at the same time making the best provision for the other.”
“Recovery challenges everything we 'knew to be true'.”
“I lift my hands to believe again. You are my refuge. You are my strength. As I pour out my heart, these things I remember, You are faithful, God, forever.”

Source : Song: I Lift My Hands, 2010
“He was thirty-one now, not too old, but old enough to be lonely. He hadn't dated since he'd been back here, hadn't met anyone who remotely interested him. It was his own fault, he knew. There was something that kept a distance between him and any woman who started to get close, something he wasn't sure he could change even if he tried. And sometimes in the moments right before sleep came, he wondered if he was destined to be alone forever.”
“Our tears prepare the ground for our future growth.”

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