This Exercise Stretches Quotes & Sayings

A woman taller and stronger than them was not something they could tolerate. — Maria Turtschaninoff

Hey John, I have an early version of The Last Hurrah you left in a class we shared back in 1994. I'd gladly return it to you. — John-Patrick Scott

Exercise stimulates your circulation, massages your internal organs, stretches and strengthens your muscles, and energizes you. Exercise is also a great way to discharge tension, work through emotional blocks, release anger, and gain self-esteem. — Ellen Bass

Even animals have a conscience. Those in the jungle KILL only to eat, not live to kill. This is why we often see packs of predators focusing on just one kill, instead of targeting many. Even animals exercise reason. I have seen a mother lion taking care of a baby antelope, and a mother elephant taking care of a baby lion. The primal need to eat is unavoidable, yet even under severe hunger stretches, the desire to love can sometimes overcome the desire to eat. — Suzy Kassem

Prayer is spiritual exercise and every act of prayer stretches the soul. — James Dillet Freeman

Its important not to focus so much on the statistics, but [on people's] perceptions. — Federico Pena

Poe isn't for everyone. He's too heady a draught for that. He may not be for you. But there are secrets to appreciating Poe, and I shall let you in on one of the most important ones: read him aloud — Neil Gaiman

I am about to proceed on a long and difficult voyage, the emergencies of which will demand all my fortitude: I am required not only to raise the spirits of others, but sometimes to sustain my own, when theirs are failing. — Mary Shelley

On the question of comfort women, when my thought goes to these people, who have been victimized by human trafficking and gone through immeasurable pain and suffering beyond description, my heart aches. And on this point, my thought has not changed at all from previous prime ministers. — Shinzo Abe

Allow some warm-up time each day to stimulate your creative flow. A pianist does keyboard exercises. A gymnast stretches. An artist needs to loosen up, too. It takes a few minutes to shift from the real world into a creative mode. — Nita Leland

it was the kind of moon
that I would want to
send back to my ancestors
and gift to my descendants

so they know that I too,
have been bruised...by beauty. — Sanober Khan

Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next - and disappear. That's why it's so important to change routines regularly, and take vacations to exotic locales, and have as many new experiences as possible that can serve to anchor our memories. Creating new memories stretches out psychological time, and lengthens our perception of our lives. — Joshua Foer

The exercise for centering oneself is a simple one.
Stop thinking of what you intend to do. Stop thinking of what you have just done. Then stop thinking that you have stopped thinking of those things.
Then you will find the now. The time that stretches eternal, and is really the only time there is.
Then in that place, you will finally have time to be yourself. — Robin Hobb

It is not difficult to rebuild a life. All we need is to be aware that we have the same strength we had before, and to use it in our favor. — Paulo Coelho

I have a rule: before I can throw anything out, I have to write down five possible uses for it. This stretches my mind and keeps it nimble - just like stretching exercises do for my body. — Anna Olson

I saw opportunity appear in an ugly six-spindle shake machine ... and grabbed it. — Ray Kroc

I've been through so much in my life. I've seen so much. I know how fast things can change. I know someone can be here one minute and gone the next. — Lisa Marie Presley

From that day forward, I saw more beauty in the world than I had ever seen before. I cherished every moment, found joy in the tiniest pleasures, for I understood this amazing gift called life. — Julianne MacLean