Stretching Quotes - Page 3

• I love stretching myself musically.

  Liz Phair

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• Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings.

  Rumi

  Change, Success, Birds Wings

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “Your Grief....”

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• The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. --as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS

  Abraham Lincoln

  Dream, Nature, Memories

  Harold Holzer, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “The Lincoln Mailbag: America Writes to the President, 1861-1865”, p.7, SIU Press

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• When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc., stretching or contracting every speaker to certain rules of theirs. I see that they forget that the first requisite and rule is that expression shall be vital and natural, as much as the voice of a brute or an interjection: first of all, mother tongue; and last of all, artificial or father tongue. Essentially your truest poetic sentence is as free and lawless as a lamb's bleat.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mother, Father, Writing

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.13, Heron Dance Press

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• I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.

  Ajay Naidu

  Theatre, Definitions, Paint

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• Pham Nuwen plunked himself down, stretching indolently.

  Vernor Vinge

  Vernor Vinge (2010). “A Fire Upon The Deep”, p.171, Macmillan

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• Grace comes immediately to meet some of those who strive, giving them assurance of the earnest of their inheritance (cf. Eph. 1:14), letting them taste the promised prizes, as if stretching out a loving hand to welcome them and anointing them for further struggles. With others, however, grace waits for the end of the struggle, and prepares for them the crown of patience as well. As one of the God-bearing Fathers says, 'Some receive holy rewards before their labours, some during labours, and some when they depart' (St. John Climacus).

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Father, Struggle

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• OK, well maybe I have to get back to Judaism. In the sense that if I look at me and my forebears forever stretching back to I don't know, whenever there's no sense of place and therefore no sense of nationality.

  Janet Suzman

  Forever, House, Looks

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• Sweet is the air with the budding haws, and the valley stretching for miles below
  Is white with blossoming cherry-trees, as if just covered with lighted snow.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sweet, White, Air

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• Your life is a sacred journey. It is about change, growth, discovery, movement, transformation, continuously expanding your vision of what is possible, stretching your soul, learning to see clearly and deeply, listening to your intuition, taking courageous challenges at every step along the way. You are on the path... exactly where you are meant to be right now... And from here, you can only go forward, shaping your life story into a magnificent tale of triumph, of healing, of courage, of beauty, of wisdom, of power, of dignity, and of love.

  Caroline Adams Miller

  Wisdom, Yoga, Healing

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• When we are playing [games], we are stretching our emotional expressive ranges, loosening up our biochemical flow of information, getting unstuck, and healing our feelings.

  Candace Pert

  Healing, Emotional, Playing Games

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• I exercise at least five times a week with stretching, Pilates, push-ups, planks, sit- ups, squats and light weights.

  Reba McEntire

  Exercise, Light, Weight

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• No matter how old I get, the race remains one of life's most rewarding experiences. My times become slower and slower, but the experience of the race is unchanged: each race a drama, each race a challenge, each race stretching me in one way or another, and each race telling me more about myself and others.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Drama, Race

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• Time's a funny thing, bending, warping, stretching, and compressing, all depending on perspective.

  Lisa Genova

  Funny Things, Perspective, Bending

  Lisa Genova (2013). “Love Anthony”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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• Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Business, Compassion, Tasks

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• Do not entertain the notion that you ought to advance in your prayer. If you do, you will only find you have put on the brake instead of the acceleration. All real progress in spiritual things comes gently, imperceptibly, and is the work of God. Our crude efforts spoil it. Know yourself for the childish, limited and dependent soul you are. Remember that the only growth which matters happens without our knowledge and that trying to stretch ourselves is both dangerous and silly. Think of the Infinite Goodness, never of your own state.

  Evelyn Underhill

  God, Christian, Spiritual

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• Patience has the meaning of testing-a thing drawn out and tested, drawn out to the last strand in a strain without breaking, and ending in sheer joy. The strain on a violin string when stretched to the uttermost gives it its strength; and the stronger the strain, the finer is the sound of our life for God, and He never strains more than we are able to bear.

  Oswald Chambers

  God, Patience, Giving

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Joy and Peace: A Holy Condition”, p.84, Discovery House

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• Adoption has the dimension of connection - not only to your own tribe, but beyond, widening the scope of what constitutes love, ties and family. It is a larger embrace. By adopting, we stretch past our immediate circles and, by reaching out, find an unexpected sense of belonging with others.

  Isabella Rossellini

  Love, Inspirational, Family

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• We stood up and bade each other farewell, but love and despair stood between us like two ghosts, one stretching his wings with his fingers over our throats, one weeping and the other laughing hideously. As I took Selma's hand and put it to my lips, she came close to me and placed a kiss on my forehead, then dropped on the wooden bench. She shut her eyes and whispered softly, "Oh, Lord God, have mercy on me and mend my broken wings!

  Khalil Gibran

  Farewell, Eye, Kissing

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• A little bit of fear means you are doing something worth doing--you are stretching...You are going outside your immediate grasp.

  Yanni

  Mean, Doing You, Littles

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• A beach walk is for stretching your legs and your mind, for looking at life with newfound eyes.

  Sandy Gingras

  Beach, Eye, Mind

  Sandy Gingras (2010). “Walks on the Beach”, p.1, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I'm just broadening my craft and stretching my skills a little bit in different directions.

  Gugu Mbatha-Raw

  Skills, Littles, Different

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Let the world unfold without always attempting to figure it all out. Let relationships just be, since everything is going to stretch out in Divine order. Don't try so hard to make something work - simply allow. Don't always toil at trying to understand your mate, your children, your parents, your boss, or anyone else because the Tao is working at all times.

  Wayne Dyer

  Relationship, Children, Divine Order

  Dr Wayne W Dyer (2009). “Change Your Thoughts-Change Your Life (Easyread Large Edition)”, p.5, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It was sad leaving the BBC; not quite like being divorced, but you don't leave after a period stretching from 1960 to 1999 without feeling a certain number of pangs.

  Richie Benaud

  Numbers, Leaving, Feelings

  Interview With Jim White, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2001.

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• The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.

  Albert Camus

  Feet, Intelligence, Mind

  Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1942-1951”

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