"Why become well-versed in science and the arts if not to impress a lovely little woman?"

-- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

#Art Quotes #Lovely Quotes #Littles Quotes

“If you hit a bad shot, just tell yourself it is great to be alive, relaxing and walking around on a beautiful golf course. The next shot will be better.”

Source : Al Geiberger, Larry Dennis (1987). “Tempo: Golf's Master Key: How to Find It, How to Keep It”, Holiday House
“Most women get pregnant and even though it's a challenge physically and uncomfortable, they generally wanted to be pregnant.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Once in a while I experience an emotion onstage that is so gut-wrenching, so heart-stopping, that I could weep with gratitude and joy. The feeling catches and magnifies so rapidly that it threatens to engulf me.”
“Ah! believers, you are a tempted people. You are always poor and needy. And God intends it should be so, to give you constant errands to go to Jesus. Some may say, it is not good to be a believer; but ah! see to whom we can go.”
“The path of the Warrior is lifelong, and mastery is often simply staying on the path.”

Source : Richard Strozzi-Heckler (2011). “In Search of the Warrior Spirit, Fourth Edition: Teaching Awareness Disciplines to the Green Berets”, p.75, North Atlantic Books
“I could not forbear getting up to the top of a little mountain, and looking out to sea, in hopes of seeing a ship : then fancy that, at a vast distance, I spied a sail, please myself with the hopes of it, and, after looking steadily, till I was almost blind, lose it quite, and sit down and weep like a child, and thus increase my misery by my folly.”
“According to the American Psychological Association, the most effective stress-relief strategies are exercising or playing sports, praying or attending a religious service, reading, listening to music, spending time with friends or family, getting a massage, going outside of ra walk, meditating or doing yoga, and spending time with a creative hobby. (The least effective strategies are gambling, shopping, smoking, drinking, eating, playing video games, surfing the Internet, and watching TV or movies for more than two hours.”

Source : Peggy Orenstein (2011). “Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture”, p.6, Harper Collins
“When you know better and you don't do better, you're no better”

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