"Maybe with boxing and good focus, I can fix myself and make my mother proud."

-- Amnat Ruenroeng

#Mother Quotes #Boxing Quotes #Focus Quotes

“A man's mistake should not reflect on how you view yourself as a woman.”
“You sleep with a dream of summer weather, wake to the thrum of rainâ€”roped down by rain. Nothing out there but drop-heavy feathers of grass and rainy air. The plastic table on the terrace has shed three legs on its way to the garden fence. The mountains have had the sense to disappear. It's the Celtic temperamentâ€”wind, then torrents, then remorse. Glory rising like a curtain over distant water. Old stonehouse, having steered us through the dark, docks in a pool of shadow all its own. That widening crack in the gloom is like good luck. Luck, which neither you nor tomorrow can depend on.”

Source : Anne Stevenson, “Drench”
“Man or woman, you have to have the mental characteristics, the ability to concentrate, the focus, the flexibility, where women have the advantage, and strength-to-weight ratio. It does depend on the raw power.”
“Never lose the first impression which has moved you.”
“There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words.”
“Funeral expenses are the curse of the poor everywhere on earth, they are wasteful and unnecessary, they are the price of foolish ostentation and a display that is less an evidence of grief than a vulgar travesty of those pompous obsequies where no grief is.”
“If you can talk the talk but cant walk the walk youll look like a fool. That's the risk but with great risk comes great reward.”
“Man is only a moral being because he lives in society, since morality consists in solidarity with the group, and varies according to that solidarity. Cause all social life to vanish, and moral life would vanish at the same time, having no object to cling to.”

Source : Emile Durkheim (2014). “The Division of Labor in Society”, p.311, Simon and Schuster

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