"Every day after I wake up, I think, 'Wait... this can't be real; I'm still going to wake up.'"

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"Every day after I wake up, I think, 'Wait... this can't be real; I'm still going to wake up.'"

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"Life is not a discrete phenomenon it is a part of an intelligent cosmic field. It is a cosmic dance."

Amit Ray, Indian Author

Existence, Life, Universe, Connection, Energy

"He had learned that, as there is no situation in the world in which a man can be happy and perfectly free, so there is no situation in which he can be perfectly unhappy and unfree."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

Existence, Freedom, Happiness, Paradox, Philosophy

"There are two important days in your life. The day you discovered you were alive and the day you forgot about it."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Existence, Life, Awareness, Discovery

"Their pleasures are fierce and their sleep impenetrable. And they know that the body has a soul in which the soul has no part."

Albert Camus, French Philosopher

Existence, Pleasure, Sleep, Body, Soul

"You call forth the world which God has formed and that world only. Nor is this life of yours by which you set such store your doing, however you may choose to tell it. Its shape was forced in the void at the onset and all talk of what might otherwise have been is senseless for there is no otherwise. Of what could it be made? Where be hid? Or how make its appearance? The probability fo the actual is absolute. That we have no power to guess it out beforehand makes it no less certain. That we may imagine alternate histories means nothing at all."

Cormac McCarthy, American Writer

Existence, Fate, Life, Creation, Determinism

"Existentialism's first move is to make every man aware of what he is and to make the full responsibility of his existence rest on him."

Jean-Paul Sartre, French Philosopher

Existence, Responsibility, Self, Freedom

"But man by his nature is an unnatural animal. If any creature stands a chance of defeating death, it is man."

Tom Robbins, American Author

Existence, Humanity, Nature, Death, Survival

"To live was to be a fragment of the cosmere that was experiencing itself."

Brandon Sanderson, American Author

Existence, Life, Universe, Experience

"It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality."

Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Spanish Novelist

Existence, Reality, Survival, Illusion, Life

"When we get down to the very basics of human life we find that we arrive to take a ride on spaceship Earth for several decades and then we leave."

Steven Magee, British Author

Existence, Life, Journey, Earth

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"I wouldn't say anything is impossible. I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and put the work and time into it."

Time

"I always thought, it would be neat to make the Olympic team."

Thought

"There is a one woman in China that claimed she paid $50 to get my e-mail address. It was pretty shocking. I got one this morning from Scotland. A girl's requesting a signed photo of me."

Pretty

"I want to be able to look back and say, 'I've done everything I can, and I was successful.' I don't want to look back and say I should have done this or that. I'd like to change things for the younger generation of swimmers coming along."

Change

"I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and you put the work and time into it. I think your mind really controls everything."

Time

"Swimming is normal for me. I'm relaxed. I'm comfortable, and I know my surroundings. It's my home."

Home

"I won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible."

Nothing

"I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There's no better time to try this than now."

Time

"You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get."

Dream

"Being compared to Ian Thorpe, that could be one of the greatest compliments you could ever get in swimming - being compared to him and Mark Spitz."

Being