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#1

“You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.”
― edwin louis cole

tags: adversity, drowning, survival

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#2

“Nobody wanted your dance,
Nobody wanted your strange glitter, your floundering
Drowning life and your effort to save yourself,
Treading water, dancing the dark turmoil,
Looking for something to give.”
― Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters

tags: dancing, drowning, poetry

253 likes

#3

“He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.”
― Robert Jordan, New Spring

tags: drowning, expectations, jordan, lan, new-spring, overwhelmed, robert, wheel-of-time, wot

366 likes

#4

“She had a strange feeling in the pit of her stomach, like when you're swimming and you want to put your feet down on something solid, but the water's deeper than you think and there's nothing there”
― Julia Gregson, East of the Sun

tags: drowning, east-of-the-sun, feeling, feet, julia-gregson, panic, scared, strange, swimming

204 likes

#5

“Sometimes you're drowning yourself in your own words.”
― Steve Maraboli

tags: drowning, life, motivational, words

48 likes

#6

“They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning.”
― Ilsa J. Bick, Drowning Instinct

tags: deep, drowning, metaphor

54 likes

#7

“Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other.”
― Anatole Broyard, Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir

tags: drowning, intimacy, resuscitation, sex

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#8

“When it comes to the crusty behavior of some people, give them the benefit of the doubt. They may be drowning right before your eyes, but you can't see it. And you would never ask someone to drown with a smile on his face.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

tags: benefit-of-the-doubt, criticism, drowning, forbearing, forgiving, gentle, patience, richelle, richelle-goodrich, understanding

48 likes

#9

“There's always a siren, singing you to shipwreck. Some of us may be more susceptible than others are, but there's always a siren. It may be with us all our lives, or it may be many years or decades before we find it or it finds us. But when it does find us, if we're lucky we're Odysseus tied up to the ship's mast, hearing the song with perfect clarity, but ferried to safety by a crew whose ears have been plugged with beeswax. If we're not at all lucky, we're another sort of sailor stepping off the deck to drown in the sea.”
― Caitlín R. Kiernan, The Drowning Girl

tags: drown, drowning, haunting, insanity, luck, madness, odysseus, safety, sailor, ship, shipwreck, siren, song

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#10

“For the first time in his existence, he knew he was drowning and he wasn't thinking about survival.”
― Christine Feehan, Water Bound

tags: drowning, survival

36 likes

#11

“For in tremendous extremities human souls are like drowning men; well enough they know they are in peril; well enough they know the causes of that peril;--nevertheless, the sea is the sea, and these drowning men do drown.”
― Herman Melville, Pierre Or The Ambiguities

tags: drowning

52 likes

#12

“Drowning,
Drowning on the land,
Drowning,
It doesn't end.”
― C.G. Visser

tags: bullying, drowning, never-ending, suicide

34 likes

#13

“Toxic people attach themselves like cinder blocks tied to your ankles, and then invite you for a swim in their poisoned waters.”
― John Mark Green

tags: drowning, dysfunctional-relationships, poisoned, toxic-people, toxic-relationships

165 likes

#14

“There’s an old adage: the sensation of drowning reminds you of everything you ever knew about swimming.”
― Frederick Weisel, Teller

tags: drowning, frederick-weisel, swimming, teller, weisel

23 likes

#15

“He feels himself buried in those two infinities, the ocean and the sky, at one and the same time: the one is a tomb; the other is a shroud.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

tags: drowning, infinite, ocean, sky

41 likes

#16

“Because one look into his eyes, and she was drowning in what existed there and didn’t want to surface.”
― Katherine McIntyre, Scrying for Summer

tags: connection, desire, drowning, longing, love, love-quotes, relationship, romance, surface, yearning

5 likes

#17

“Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: death, life, wordplay

1664 likes

#18

“When everyone is somebody, then no one’s anybody.”
― W.S. Gilbert, The Gondoliers

15 likes

#19

“Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. ”
― Coco Chanel

tags: failure, success, time

3301 likes

#20

“The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality because they confuse the world as it with the world as they think about it and talk about it and describe it. For on the one hand there is the real world and on the other there is a whole system of symbols about that world which we have in our minds. These are very very useful symbols, all civilization depends on them, but like all good things they have their disadvantages, and the principle disadvantage of symbols is that we confuse them with reality, just as we confuse money with actual wealth.”
― Alan Wilson Watts

tags: meditation, nominalism, reality, symbols

41 likes

#21

“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

523 likes

#22

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

11928 likes

#23

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
― Robert F. Kennedy

1479 likes

#24

“Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

tags: failure, fearless, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quote, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-philosophy, life-quotes, living, motivation, motivational, never-give-up, optimism, optimistic, persistence, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, trying

4004 likes

#25

“A bruise is a lesson... and each lesson makes us better.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: inspiration, obstacles, trying

709 likes

#26

“We try so hard to hide everything we're really feeling from those who probably need to know our true feelings the most. People try to bottle up their emotions, as if it's somehow wrong to have natural reactions to life.”
― Colleen Hoover, Maybe Someday

tags: bottle, emotion, feelings, hide, natural, reaction, trying

611 likes

#27

“If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid.
(a Shin'a'in saying)”
― Mercedes Lackey, Owlknight

tags: stupid, stupidity, trying

370 likes

#28

“Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's a day you've had everything to do and you've done it.”
― Margaret Thatcher

tags: accomplishment, achievement, challenge

474 likes

#29

“If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.”
― Dorothy Parker

tags: achievement, authors, elements-of-style, favors, grammar, happiness, writing, writing-process

529 likes

#30

“We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.”
― B. F. Skinner

tags: achievement, great, love, reading, teach, trivial

374 likes

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