In the mind there is no absolute or free will.
I told myself there was no way I was going to let this training go to waste. It was my time, and I was ready to go.
I like underwater pole vaulting, because you can have perfect form without the risk.
I don't have a specific mantra; It's more about believing that I'm tough. I've been through a lot, and I'm not wiling to let myself get beat.
My boyfriend is not a swimmer!
I can just put my head down and train hard.
I feel like I'm more of the underdog, which is kind of nice.
I sometimes think that perhaps our minds are too weak to grasp joy or sorrow except in small things. . . In the big things joy and sorrow are just alike - overwhelming. At least, we only get them bit by bit, in tiny flashes - in waves - that our minds can't stand for very long. p 199
Evolution continually innovates, but at each level it conserves the elements that are recombined to yield the innovations.
Mechanical wings allow us to fly, but it is with our minds that we make the sky ours
Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?