Swim quotes
373 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what do you find? That you can swim? Well - life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!"
"Life is just the same as learning to swim. Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!"
"I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim."
"If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim."
"I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in the silence, and the truth comes to me."
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"I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it."
"Now,I'm no scientist,but I know what endorphins are. They're tiny little magical elves that swim through your blood stream and tell funny jokes to each other. When they reach your brain,you hear what they're saying and that boosts your health and happiness. "Knock Knock... Who's There?.. Little endorphin... Little endorphin who?... Little Endorphin Annie." And then the endorphins laugh and then you laugh. See? Its Science."
"Swim out of your little pond."
"If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it."
"If you want to learn to swim you have to throw yourself in the water."
"A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim."
"We're emphasizing the knowable by predicting how certain people and companies will swim against the current. We're not predicting the fluctuation in the current."
"I took my daily swim at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool despite the presence of onlookers"
"You are always racing against the other swimmers, but I always try to just focus on what I'm doing and how I want to swim my races."
"The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight."
"Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone."
"As you swim the river of live, do the breast stroke. It helps to clear the turds from your path."
"There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are impaled on the crook of conditioning. A fish that is in the water has no choice that he is. Genius would have it that we swim in sand. We are fish and we drown."
"Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing as water...If I find in myself a desire, which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."
"This is my endlessly recurrent temptation: to go down to that Sea, and there neither dive nor swim nor float, but only dabble and splash, careful not to get out of my depth and holding on to the lifeline which connects me with my things temporal."
"In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim"
"What is more true than anything else? To swim is true and to sink is true. One cannot speak any more of being, one must speak onlyof the mess."
"Windows work two ways, mirrors one way. You never walk through mirrors or swim through windows."
"The schizophrenic is drowning in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight. Edgar Cayce made the same observation in his readings"
"In rivers and bad governments the lightest things swim at top."
