Quotes About Swimming Against The Current

#1. Things take care of themselves as long as you trust and don't try to control too much. Things will happen. Things tend to occur. Why resist what's inevitable? That's like swimming against the current, salmon notwithstanding. Go with the flow, you know? Glide with the glow, man. It's easier.

Tony Vigorito

#2. Swimming against the current is easier if what is on the other side is greater than your pain.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#3. Swimming against the current is not idiotic if the waters are racing toward a waterfall.

Nicolas Gomez Davila

#4. I let it go. It's like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.

Joanne Harris

#5. You had to live in your own bubble. You couldn't force your way into someone else's, because then it wouldn't be a bubble any more.

Nick Hornby

#6. Happiness is a state of mind, not a set of circumstances.

Richard Carlson

#7. I started to think about time, and how it keeps moving and draining and flowing forever forward, seconds into minutes into days into years, all of it leading to the same place, a current running forever in one direction. And we're all going and swimming as fast as we can, helping it along.

Lauren Oliver

#8. I was six months old at the time that I was taken, with my mother and father, from Sacramento, California, and placed in internment camps in the United States.

Robert Matsui

#9. You think I'm drunk and talking nonsense? I'm not. I would know she was being well taken care of, and I could go pleasantly to seed here in the mountains. It would be a fine, quiet feeling.

Yasunari Kawabata

#10. Put 'em on and be yourself, mister alienated loner steppenwolf bemused distant meta-izing technocrat rationalist fucking shithead.

Neal Stephenson

#11. Everyone must be given something he can grasp and recognize as his own idea.

Pliny The Younger

#12. You cannot travel back in time to fix your mistakes, but you can learn from them and forgive yourself for not knowing better.

Leon Brown

#13. With that radio I was always swimming with the current political streams in the West. I was never stranded.

Lennart Meri

#14. For all that I hate about what I've done, there's one thing I can't regret.
It led me to him.

K.A. Tucker

#15. I wish I'd learned then that when you call someone's bluff you usually win: it's simply not what the other person is expecting. And swimming along in the slipstream of another's current is no way to live.

Harriet Evans

#16. In the current [Carter] administration, who can use the White House swimming pool and tennis courts is decided at the very highest level. President Ford did not bother himself with such minor details. He let me swim in the pool. He only got upset when I tried to walk across the water.

Henry A. Kissinger

#17. The first and last lesson of religion is, 'The things that are seen are temporal; the things that are not seen are eternal.' It puts an affront upon nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#18. You've been going for hunts," Tamlin said at last, "but you really don't have any interest in hunting." He cast me a sidelong glance. "No wonder you two never catch anything." No

Sarah J. Maas

#19. Little lumps of lead in copper jackets were crisscrossing the woods under the shellbursts, zipping along much faster than sound.

Kurt Vonnegut

#20. The first opinion that occurs to us when we are suddenly asked about something is usually not our own but only the current one pertaining to our class, position, or parentage; our own opinions seldom swim on the surface.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#21. Beyonce is not above critique. As a feminist herself, I hope Beyonce would welcome it.

Roxane Gay

#22. It was like swimming against a current that swept you backwards however hard you struggled, and then suddenly deciding to turn round and go with the current instead of opposing it. Nothing had changed except your own attitude: the predestined thing happened in any case.

George Orwell