"I can remember when, as a beginner, I was delighted with any ball as long as it would bounce."

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Source : HELEN WILLS “TENNIS”

Helen Wills

#Long Quotes #Beginners Quotes #Balls Quotes

“A Communist officer told a Christian he was beating, 'I am almighty, as you suppose your God can be. I can kill you.' The Christian answered, 'The power is all on my side. I can love you while you torture me to death.'”
“Please note that, at no point in the performance, does my hand leave the end of my arm...”
“I have great artistry, I can spin well, I have good footwork, and I can jump. I can do the quad jump, and I've done it multiple times in competition. It's definitely a jump that I have in my arsenal. I like to think of myself as the complete skater.”
“The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.”

Source : "A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living". Book edited by Diane K. Osbon, 1991.
“But if you do know what is taught by plants and weather, you are in on the gossip and can feel truly at home. The sum of a field's forces [become] what we call very loosely the 'spirit of the place.' To know the spirit of a place is to realize that you are a part of a part and that the whole is made or parts, each of which in a whole. You start with the part you are whole in.”

Source : Gary Snyder (2010). “The Practice of the Wild”, p.41, Counterpoint Press
“I just want to say that dreams do come true. Don't ever give up on your dreams. Sometimes it just takes a little bit longer for some of us.”
“Young children from Guatemala who are adopted into the United States gain considerable height relative to the standards. So the height difference cannot be genetic.”
“Before my encounter with Thomist philosophy through Maritain, I had almost reached the same conclusions through the logical development of my work, intuition and thought, but what a great sense of joy I felt upon discovering, in Maritain, the confirmation of certain thought patterns, certain ways of clarifying these to myself and to others”

Source : "The Life of a Painter: The Autobiography of Gino Severini". Book by Gino Severini, 1995.

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