“You don't drown by falling in water; you only drown if you stay there.”
“You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.”
As quoted in Publishing Tips : Weekly Strategies for the Independent Writer (2008) by Linda A. Lavid, p. 57.
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Brazilian lyricist and novelist 1947Related quotes

“Listen, O lord of the meeting rivers,
things standing shall fall,
but the moving ever shall stay.”
Basava’s saying in his “The Lord of the Meeting Rivers: Devotional Poems of Basavanna” quoted in The Lord of the Meeting Rivers Quotes, 23 November 2013, Goodreads.com http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/3772282-the-lord-of-the-meeting-rivers-devotional-poems-of-basavanna,
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