You have to have other things in your life apart from swimming to focus on. It's not going to be just swimming in my life.
The beckoning counts, and not the clicking of the latch behind you.
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.
This is a great moment, when you see, however distant, the goal of your wandering. The thing which has been living in your imagination suddenly become part of the tangible world. It matters not how many ranges, rivers or parching dusty ways may lie between you; it is yours now for ever.
One can only really travel if one lets oneself go and takes what every place brings without trying to turn it into a healthy private pattern of one's own and I suppose that is the difference between travel and tourism.
Risk is the salt and sugar of life.
When you're wearing the Avalanche logo, you battle.
Would it not grieve a woman to be over-mastered by a piece of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marle?
Miracles can happen when we can keep our consciousness away from analyzing and classifying one another.
But recently it seems that each time I vote, I am being asked to compromise my conservative ideals and my commitment to the American taxpayer simply for the benefit of political gain.