In the Middle Ages, they had guillotines, stretch racks, whips and cahins. Nowadays, we have a much more effective torture device called the bathroom scale. ~Stephen Phillips It’s okay to be fat. So you’re fat. Just be fat and shut up about it. ~Roseanne Barr I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. [...]
A photographer gets people to pose for him. A yoga instructor gets people to pose for themselves. ~T. Guillemets The beauty is that people often come here for the stretch, and leave with a lot more. ~Liza Ciano, co-owner and co-director of Yoga Vermont, yogavermont.com The last time I opened my chakra so I could [...]
Have you noticed that life, real honest-to-goodness life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in the newspapers? ~inspirational quote on Life by Jean Anouilh, The Rehearsal, 1950 Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children. ~good quotes about Honesty of Oliver Wendell The world is [...]
There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted. ~inspirational quote on Exercise by Thomas de Quincey Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed [...]
To hear two American men congratulating each other on being heterosexual is one of the most chilling experiences – and unique to the United States. You don’t hear two Italians sitting around complimenting each other because they actually like to go to bed with women. The American is hysterical about his manhood. ~good quotes about [...]
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition ~good quotes about Women’s Greetings of Timothy Leary Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. ~famous sayings on Goals by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Drift-Wood There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. [...]
“I believe in the perfect outcome in every area of my life! Expect to be successful! Expect to win!” — Brian Tracy “It is funny about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often get it.” — W. Somerset Maugham “Life… It tends to respond to our outlook, [...]
Patriotism is easy to understand in America – it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country ~good quotes about Patriotic of Calvin Coolidge It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism ~famous sayings on Independence Day by J. Horace McFarland It [...]
How beautiful a day can be, When kindness touches it! ~famous sayings on Sweetest Day by George Elliston Kindness is for all times in all situations — not just when it suits you. ~motivational quotations on Attitude by Audray Landrum Words of kindness are more powerful than cruel swords. ~wise kindness sayings by Jose B. [...]
And that’s the wonderful thing about family travel: it provides you with experiences that will remain locked forever in the scar tissue of your mind. ~famous sayings on Travel by Dave Barry The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works is the family. ~motivational quotations on Family by [...]
[History is] a tyranny over the souls of the dead – and so the imagination of the living. ~good quotes about History of William Carlos Williams Reality leaves a lot to the imagination. ~famous sayings on Reality by John Lennon Art is the colors and textures of your imagination. ~motivational quotations on Art by Meghan, [...]
If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers. ~good quotes about School of Edgar W. Howe We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have [...]
I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart. ~good quotes about Love of Alice Walker Fuck all the people who say, God bless, and then don’t bother to complete the sentence. Who they are, I haven’t the slightest. But, if I were God, I would not [...]
It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism ~good quotes about Patriotic of J. Horace McFarland Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first. ~famous sayings on Patriotism by Charles de Gaulle [...]
Some people will not tolerate such emotional honesty in communication. They would rather defend their dishonesty on the grounds that it might hurt others. Therefore, having rationalized their phoniness into nobility, they settle for superficial relationships. ~good quotes about Honesty of Author Unknown Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made [...]