Toftenes Quotes & Sayings

That last rep where you're trying as hard as you can and you barely make it!
That is what turns on the growth mechanism in your body.
That last almost impossible rep where you're bearing your teeth, you're shaking all over, you need assistance!
That rep is very special, that rep is very different. There's something special going on inside your body when that happens. — Mike Mentzer

Change, create, inspire. Dreams really do work. — John Paul DeJoria

Movement is only as good as the sense of stillness that you can bring to it to put it into perspective. — Pico Iyer

Who is the more courageous? The big, tough gay-basher, or the LGBTI person who faces their threats on a daily basis and carries on being honest about who they are regardless? — Christina Engela

Here and there in the barrios and the favelas, among those who have least, beat hearts of hope, fly sparks of Overcoming. — Mumia Abu-Jamal

I like fire and water. You are lucky to have both right here."
From " Desperate Pursuit in Venice" Chapter Two. Kataryna's response to Luca. — Karynne Summars

He writes a paragraph a day. A paragraph for Maya. It isn't much, but it's what he has left to give. He — Gabrielle Zevin

Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen. — Mark Haddon

If you are not content today, there is nothing you can buy tomorrow to change that. — Joshua Becker

Life stands still when mankind is afraid to take a chance. — Corita Kent

respond rather than react to situations, people or environment. Let go of limiting emotions such as fear, frustration and anger and start to express your emotions to others, this is essential to a healthy wellbeing. — Avis J. Williams

When will you disembarrass yourselves of the lymphatic ideology of that deplorable Ruskin, which I would like to cover with so much ridicule that you would never forget it? With his morbid dream of primitive and rustic life, with his nostalgia for Homeric cheeses and legendary wool-spinners, with his hatred for the machine, steam power, and electricity, that maniac of antique simplicity is like a man who, after having reached full physical maturity, still wants to sleep in his cradle and feed himself at the breast of his decrepit old nurse in order to recover his thoughtless infancy. — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti