"I am clumsy, a late and nervous driver, and despise all sports except a little gentle dancing or yoga."

-- Emma Donoghue

#Sports Quotes #Yoga Quotes #Dancing Quotes

“There's no magic to running far or climbing Everest. Endurance is mental strength. It's all about heart.”
“So it's really nice after about a year and a half to get back on stage and flex those old muscles.”

Source : "American Morning With Paula Zahn" with Bill Hemmer, www.cnn.com. August 2, 2002.
“The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. The mighty abstract idea I have of beauty in all things stifles the more divided and minute domestic happiness.”
“Don't tolerate me as different. Accept me as part of the spectrum of normalcy.”
“Every employee, not just the senior people, should know how a company is doing.”
“It was a fun job but I'd never claim Busted was anything other than a pop band.”

Source : "Busted bust up". Kerrang! Magazine, www.theguardian.com. January 14, 2005.
“I don't know what it is about the shower that generates creative thoughts. Maybe it's the hot water. Maybe it's being unencumbered even by the restriction of clothing.”
“I learned that our deepest need is to overcome our aloneness and our separateness. We seek to escape from separateness in various ways. We seek conformity, mistaking it for union. This is a soul-crushing way to exist. Or we seek union through orgiastic states - drugs, alcoholism, overwork - or through creative activities. But the ultimate escape from separateness is through interpersonal union.”

Source : Joseph Jaworski (2011). “Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership”, p.46, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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