Olbrecht Swimming Quotes

#1. Mostly what you lose with time, in memory, is the specificity of things, their exact sequence. It all runs together, becomes a watery soup. Portmanteau days, imploded years. Like a bad actor, memory always goes for effect, abjuring motivation, consistency, good sense.

James Sallis

#2. Sometimes life gives you a second chance, or even two! Not always, but sometimes. It's what you do with those second chances that counts.

Dave Wilson

#3. Suffering is not objective. It depends largely on
the way you perceive. There are things that cause
you to suffer but do not cause others to suffer. There are things that bring you joy but do not bring others joy.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#4. Of course, the plea for respect for nonhuman life goes far beyond the scientific delight of familiarity with our planet mates. The nonhuman forms of life with which we 6,000 million talking, upright apes share this finite planet are directly or indirectly connected to our well-being.

Lynn Margulis

#5. He that will not stoop for a pin will never be worth a pound.

Samuel Pepys

#6. Is not the action of nature like the stretching of a bow? The high, it pulls down; the low, it lifts up; It takes from what is in excess In order to make good of what is deficient. Who can take what they have in excess and offer it to others?

Laozi

#7. I felt like I'd culturally arrived when a character on the HBO show 'True Blood' was reading a hardback of 'Heartsick' at Sookie's kitchen table.

Chelsea Cain

#8. Seldom, if ever, has a war ended leaving the victors with such a sense of uncertainty and fear, with such a realization that the future is obscure and that survival is not assured.

Edward R. Murrow

#9. If you are too busy to pray, you are busier than God wants you to be.

Wanda E. Brunstetter

#10. If you can't see the sun you will be impressed with a street light. If you've never felt thunder and lightning you'll be impressed with fireworks. And if you turn your back on the greatness and majesty of God you'll fall in love with a world of shadows and short-lived pleasures.

John Piper

#11. All I think when I look at you is hallelujah

Emma Donoghue

#12. Don't imprison yourself through self-doubt. Break out of your self-imposed prison with intentional action.

Tony Curl

#13. Growing up in California, I obviously knew about our deep connections with the Japanese.

John Roos

#14. Back then I thought if you cut a record, you were automatically a star.

Mickey Gilley