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I've been in the shallow end of a pool, just kind of walking around, but this was my first time really swimming - and I was horrified! I actually lost it whenever I saw the edge of the pool. But I took baby steps and rewarded myself every step of the way. ↗

— Monique Coleman

#around #baby #been #edge #end

I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#about #became #being #book #died

It just makes that person feel that what his work is is going to be more valid. But who wants to see a guy standing in front, looking like a bum, doing something that a bums don't do? This don't make sense. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#bums #doing #feel #front #going

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#charities #compliment #forgotten #fractions #happiness

Mountains were once my big adventure but is is over since a long time; I still dream from the wonderful days sometimes, read also a few pages from a mountain book. But the thought of doing again active mountain climbing has faded. ↗

— Fritz Zwicky

#adventure #again #also #big #big adventure

A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#like #looks #major #military #only

Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service. ↗

— Robert Collier

#always #distant #every #fields #greener

Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives. ↗

— Robert Collier

#between #cannot #continually #difference #eventually

When we got with George, he didn't care what was happening. He liked how crazy we were looking and dressing. I kinda liked being with George more so at the time, because George let us do what we wanted to do. But I needed both lessons. ↗

— Bootsy Collins

#being #both #care #crazy #dressing

I used to fly around the stage without strings or camera tricks. That took seven years to create. ↗

— David Copperfield

#camera #create #fly #i #seven