"I wanted to teach myself some life lessons at the age of 60 and one of them was that you don't give up."

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Source : Twitter post from Apr 28, 2015

Diana Nyad

#Giving Up Quotes #Life Lesson Quotes

“Competition in armament, both land and naval, is not only a terrible burden upon the people, but I believe it to be one of the greatest menaces to the peace of the world.”
“I've seen pretty clear, ever since I was a young un, as religion's something else besides notions. It isn't notions sets people doing the right things--it's feelings. It's the same with the notions in religion as it is with math'matics--a man may be able to work problems straight off in's head as he sits by the fire and smokes his pipe; but if he has to make a machine or a building, he must have a will and a resolution, and love something else better than his own ease.”
“The acrid scents of autumn, Reminiscent of slinking beasts, make me fear”
“Christian nation mythologists pump themselves up with narratives of American exceptionalism and Christian domination. But sooner or later even their most devoted followers should begin to see that also depicting it as vulnerable to non-existent threats undermines the myth itself.”
“We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.”
“I hate when new parents ask who the baby looks like. It was born 15 minutes ago, it looks like a potato”
“I like adventures, and Iâ€™m going to find some.”
“I would confront the thieves, I thought, and the self-evident justice of my case would cause them to crumble before me. I don't know why I expected such extravagant results from the application of mere justice. That kind of calculation is seldom borne out by worldly events.”

Source : "Julian Comstock: A Story of the 22nd Century". Book by Robert Charles Wilson, June 1, 2009.

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