#stead

I'm really looking forward to just concentrating on the swimming part now instead of what's going on with me outside the pool. ↗

— Eric Shanteau

#forward #going #i #instead #just

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel. ↗

— Voltaire

#anyone #controlling #destroy #instead #passions

Around 80% of Liberians are unemployed and only half of all children go to primary school. Just one in 20 go on to secondary school. Young children are on the streets instead of in the classrooms. We are not giving them the opportunity to learn and they will struggle to get jobs when they grow up. ↗

— George Weah

#children #classrooms #get #giving #go

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float. ↗

— Alan Watts

#drown #faith #float #grab #hold

Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not. ↗

— Francis Wright

#errors #establishing #facts #imaginations #instead

The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril. ↗

— Xenophon

#arduous #being #cause #enduring #followers

Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

#engage #ideas #instead #like #live

Perhaps it's more merciful to forget the dead instead of remembering them. ↗

— Jose Bergaman

#forget #instead #merciful #more #perhaps

So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#gandalf #steadfastness #truths #decisions

Every time we give a musician the advice to give away the music and sell the T-shirt, we're saying, 'Don't make your living in this more elevated way. Instead, reverse this social progress, and choose a more physical way to make a living.' We're sending them to peasanthood, very much like the Maoists have. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#away #choose #elevated #every #every time