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There - fore what is contrary to human nature is contrary to God's will. — Peter Kreeft

Kick-start your brain. New ideas come from watching something, talking to people, experimenting, asking questions and getting out of the office! — Steve Jobs

He who obeys with modesty appears worthy of being some day a commander. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Great Brown Bear is walking with us, Salmon swimming upstream with us, as we stroll a city street. — Gary Snyder

I'm swimming upstream. Fighting the tide while the happy dead drift past me to the pools of ignorance. — Katie Waitman

Marketers have to move upstream now. We have to stop being the last step in the process and start being the first step. — Seth Godin

It's the effort that shows the way, and if you keep trying, one day the answer will be clear. — Lee Strauss

You ain't supposed to get salmon when they're swimming upstream to spawn. But if you're hungry, you do. — Loretta Lynn

The fish who keeps on swimming is the first to chill upstream. — Nick Hexum

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you. — Wendell Berry

Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom. — Sam Walton

Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do. — John Oates

Salmon. Salmon, salmon, salmon, salmon. I eat so much salmon at these weddings, twice a year I get this urge to swim upstream. — David Nicholls

My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current. — Laura Schlessinger

Look upstream. Just simply turn around; have you no will? — Annie Dillard

Most people spend less than 20 hrs a year learning about freedom, yet many wonder why it's in decline. Don't fight upstream. Instead, turn it around. — Oliver DeMille

When she cries, it is quiet, tearless, almost completely imperceptible: one more unheard prayer. — Joe Meno

Only the gamefish swims upstream, But the sensible fish swims down. — Ogden Nash

One can never swim upstream to a prosper future if they continue to drown in their past. — Timothy Pina

When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency. — Arthur Golden

Always drink upstream from the herd. — Will Rogers

Plenty of folks are so contrary that if they should fall into the river, they would insist upon floating upstream. — Josh Billings

Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.
- Chinese proverb — Alvin Toffler

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream. — W.C. Fields

It is not really a small thing when in small things we resist self. — Thomas A Kempis

Our calling is not only to pull people out of the river, but to go upstream to find out what or who is pushing them in. — Jim Wallis

We were made to live slower than our fast-paced Western culture deems normal. But it means paddling upstream through strong currents. — Tsh Oxenreider

#4) YOUR LIFE IS MY GIFT TO YOU. TREAT IT LIKE ONE. — Neal Shusterman

You never stand beside the same river twice; you have to keep looking upstream. — Donald Keough

He pointed upstream and led us through the foggy morning, with spotty snow flurries and a forty percent chance of death. — Rick Riordan

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river.
We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in. — Desmond Tutu

Investing in women is smart economics, and investing in girls, catching them upstream, is even smarter economics. — Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

It's a strange kind of irony. The things that affect us most are the things we can't remember (from Swimming Upstream). — Ruth Mancini

A heart that yearns for romantic love cannot be quenched by any other passion, position or property. — Franklyn James

After a lifetime of swimming upstream, I am convinced that one of the real secrets to Wal-mart's phenomenal success has been that very tendency. — Sam Walton

What i need is traveling minds talktouch kisses spittouch you swimming upstream. — Sonia Sanchez

If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip. — Bill Griffith