“Remember the high board at the swimming pool? After days of looking up at it you finally climbed the wet steps to the platform. From there, it was higher than ever. There were only two ways down: the steps to defeat of the dive to victory. You stood on the edge, shivering in the hot sun, deathly afraid. At last you leaned too far forward, it was too late for retreat, and you dived. The high board was conquered, and you spent the rest of the day diving. Climbing a thousand high boards, we demolish fear, and turn into human beings.” WayLifeHumansTwoLastsRememberTurnsHuman BeingsStepsSunAdventureVictoryHigherThousandLateHotDefeatEdgesBoardsToo LateClimbingSwimmingPoolWetPlatformsRetreatTwo WaysDivingSwimming PoolDemolishHot Sun Author:Richard Bach
“Out of the silver heat mirage he ran. The sky burned, and under him the paving was a black mirror reflecting sun-fire. Sweat sprayed his skin with each foot strike so that he ran in a hot mist of his own creation. With each slap on the softened asphalt, his soles absorbed heat that rose through his arches and ankles and the stems of his shins. It was a carnival of pain, but he loved each stride because running distilled him to his essence and the heat hastened this distillation.” RunningPainBlackSunFireFeetSkyCreationSkinsEssenceHotMirrorsRoseStrikesRanHeatSilverSweatBurnedStemReflectingMistSlapInspirational RunningStrideAnklesArchesMiragesCarnivalsAsphaltPavingDistillation Author:James Tabor
“I often remember in this false, distorted way, and the memories are often cloaked in the colour of the sun. Sometimes I feel nostalgia for things I knew I hated when they were happening, for days spent at the beach or the swimming pool with my sisters. When I pick my memories apart, I realise my mind has merely played back the objective ingredients, the clichéd apparatus of happiness, the sun, the sound of splashing water, ice-cream on parched lips and cold fizzy drink on a hot tongue, and laugher too. My memory often peddles on the falsehood of past happiness. I should know this.” KnowsWayFeelsShouldMindSometimesPastRememberSoundWaterMemoriesSunColdDrinkHappeningsPicksHotLipsTongueNostalgiaObjectivesIceBeachHatedColourIngredientsRealisingSwimmingMy SisterPoolFalsehoodCreamIce CreamSwimming PoolSplashingPast Happiness Author:M. J. Hyland
“Try the meditation of the trail, just walk along looking at the trail at your feet and don't look about and just fall into a trance as the ground zips by," Kerouac wrote. "Trails are like that: you're floating along in a Shakespearean Arden paradise and expect to see nymphs and fluteboys, then suddenly you're struggling in a hot broiling sun of hell in dust and nettles and poison oak... just like life.” TryingLooksRunningFallWalksStruggleSunHellMeditationFeetHotDustParadisePoisonFloatingTrailsOaksTranceZipsNymphsNettles Author:Christopher McDougall
“My once-keen analytical mind has become so dulled by endless hours of baking in the hot sun, thrashing about in tight chimneys, pulling at impossibly heavy loads, freezing my ass off.... so that now my mental state is comparable to that of a Peruvian Indian, well stoked on coca leaves.” MindWellsStatesHoursSunHotHeavyEndlessAssIndianClimbingLoadPullingBakingFreezingChimneysHeavy LoadsHot SunPeruvians Author:Warren G. Harding
“To see those babies with no food for three of four days, old people sitting in the hot sun, when you see these poor people, you cannot help but being compassionate or affected.” PeopleHelpingThreeLiteraturePoorSunFourBabySittingHotAffectedCompassionateOld PeoplePoor PeopleHot Sun Author:Geraldo Rivera
“When the guilty verdict was handed down, I walked outside and saw a rainbow encircling the sun. Everyone in Monrovia could see it. It was a hot day, 80 or 90 degrees. I don't remember seeing any raindrops fall. I thought, this is a sign.” RememberFallSunSawsSeeingDegreesHotGuiltyRainbowVerdictRaindropsHot Days Author:Leymah Gbowee
“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.” LightLiteratureNatureSunWindColdSummerSpringExpectationsHotShiningWinterBlowAutumnMarchShadeSpringtimeGreat ExpectationsSun ShinesSpring PoemsSummer DaysSpring SeasonWinter DaysSpring DaySpring InspirationalWind BlowingWinter To SpringWinter ColdWinter TimeSummer SunFirst Day Of SpringWelcome SpringHot DaysSummer And WinterCold DaysFunny WinterGreat Expectations ImportantSpring SummerHot SummerSpringtime InspirationalMarch PoemsWinter LoveCold WindHappy SpringHot SunSummer Wind Book:Great Expectations: Classic English Literature Source: Great Expectations: Classic English Literature