"Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds."

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Andrew Solomon

#Exercise Quotes #Work Out Quotes #Pounds Quotes

“I don't know if it's just me or everyone, but the whole vibe with skiing is not so much thriving on competition against others as it is against myself and the clock.”
“But if it's true it's beautiful. Truth is beautiful. And so my whole work is about what amounts to a reverence for life itself.”

Source : "Roy DeCarava, Harlem Insider Who Photographed Ordinary Life, Dies at 89" by Randy Kennedy, www.nytimes.com. October 28, 2009.
“A bad website is like a grumpy salesperson.”
“The raw fact is that every successful example of economic development this past century Â– every case of a poor nation that worked its way up to a more or less decent, or at least dramatically better, standard of living Â– has taken place via globalization, that is, by producing for the world market rather than trying for self-sufficiency.”
“Don't give up your dreams.”
“Behind the violence of the birthing of galaxies and stars and planets came a quiet and tender melody, a gentle love song. All the raging of creation, the continuing hydrogen explosions on the countless suns, the heaving of planetary bodies, all was enfolded in a patient, waiting love.”
“Sometimes fiction is more easily understood than true events. Reality is often pathetic.”

Source : Young-ha Kim (2007). “I Have the Right to Destroy Myself”, p.52, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade And keeps that palace of the soul serene.”

Source : Edmund Waller (1854). “Poetical works, ed. by R. Bell”, p.211

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