Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.
Going out there in the water, it feels as if there's nothing wrong with me.
Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it.
Swimming is my passion and something that I love. Going out there in the water, it feels as if there's nothing wrong with me. I go out there and train as hard as anybody else. I have the same dreams, the same goals. It doesn't matter if you look different. You're still the same as everybody else because you have the same dream.
When you are racing in an able-bodied competition, you're all equal and you go out there and try your best, and that's what counts.
I have always had a dream to take part in an Olympic Games, and losing my leg didn't change anything.
It doesn't matter if you look different. You're still the same as everybody else because you have the same dream.
As children, our protests availed little. As adults, the same.
In this life our sorrows are either not very long or not very great because nature either overcomes them by habits or puts an end to them by sinking under their weight. But in hell the torments cannot be overcome by habit, for while they are of terrible intensity they are at the same time of continual variety, each pain, so to speak, taking fire from another and re-endowing that which has enkindled it with a still fiercer flame.
The company calls it 'downsizing' or 'rightsizing. ' My own informal "Name the Layoff" contest produced some other euphemisms: Retroactive Hiring Freeze, Resume Revision Days, Amway Opportunity Time, and Corporation Lite.
I hate horror movies! I avoid them like the plague. I don't like getting scared.