A Quote by Helen Cresswell
The only good reason for swimming, so far as I can see, is to escape drowning.
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Swimming is good for you, especially if you're drowning. Not only do you get a cardiovascular workout but also you don't die.
The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
Swimming is not a sport. Swimming is a way to keep from drowning. That's just common sense!
The more miserable you get, the less you should look for an escape (socializing, entertainment). Rather, isolate until you see and let go of the reason for it, or move into your real Self. Never let go of - through escape from misery - a good opportunity to grow.
I remember a story I once heard about drowning: that when you fall into cold water it's not that you drown right away but that the cold disorients you and makes you think that down is up and up is down, so you may be swimming, swimming, swimming for your life in the wrong direction, all the way toward the bottom until you sink. That's how I feel, as though everything has been turned around.
Swimming is by far the best tonic I've found for my back. I'm not a good swimmer - I do the breaststroke or elementary backstroke in the slow lane - but when I took a two-week break from swimming I was surprised how much I missed it.
I'm trying to conquer swimming. I'm getting there. I've gotta conquer it. I had a fear of drowning and tunnels and flying. I started flying and got my pilot's license, so I conquered that. Now, I'm onto swimming and tunnels.
What a culture we live in, we are swimming in an ocean of information, and drowning in ignorance.
We are swimming on the face of time and all else has drowned, is drowning, or will drown.
Cath felt like she was swimming in words. Drowning in them, sometimes.
Some people give their problems swimming lessons instead of drowning them.
They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning. (pg. 241)
It has nothing to do with swimming. That happens to be my sport. I'm trying to see how far I can go.
It has nothing to do with swimming. That happens to be my sport. I'm trying to see how far I can go
I couldn't make it on the swimming team in high school. In fact, I got thrown off the swimming team and was forced to audition for the school play because they had at the audition about 35 girls show up and no boys, so my swimming coach suggested that I might be able to do the drama department more good than I was doing the swimming team.
Faced with today's problems and disappointments , many people will try to escape from their responsibility. Escape in selfishness, escape in sexual pleasure, escape in drugs, escape in violence, escape in indifference and cynical attitudes. I propose to you the option of love, which is the opposite of escape.
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