Stretching Quotes - Page 13

• Birth
  is what women do. Women are privileged to stand in such power! Birth
  stretches a woman's limits in every sense. To allow such stretching
  of one's limits is the challenge of pregnancy, birth, and parenting.
  The challenge is to be fully present and to allow the process because of
  inner trust.

  Elizabeth Noble

  Pregnancy, Challenges, Limits

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• Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach. Any small, calm thing that one soul can do to help another soul, to assist some portion of this poor suffering world, will help immensely. It is not given to us to know which acts or by whom, will cause the critical mass to tip toward an enduring good.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Soul, Tasks, World

  "You Were Made For This" by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, www.awakin.org. January 28, 2008.

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• It's easier to get divorced than to engage in the soul-stretching personal growth that is inevitable in marriage

  Laura M. Brotherson

  Soul, Growth, Easier

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• Spring flew swiftly by, and summer came; and if the village had been beautiful at first, it was now in the full glow and luxuriance of its richness. The great trees, which had looked shrunken and bare in the earlier months, had now burst into strong life and health; and stretching forth their green arms over the thirsty ground, converted open and naked spots into choice nooks, where was a deep and pleasant shade from which to look upon the wide prospect, steeped in sunshine, which lay stretched out beyond.

  Charles Dickens

  Beautiful, Summer, Strong

  Charles Dickens, George Cruikshank (1838). “Oliver Twist: Or, The Parish Boy's Progress”

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• Our goals should stretch us bit by bit. So often when we think we have encountered a ceiling, it is really a psychological or experimental barrier that we have built ourselves. We built it and we can remove it. Just as correct principles, when applied, carry their own witness that they are true, so do correct personal improvement programs. But we must not expect personal improvement without pain or some 'remodeling.' We can't expect to have the thrills of revealed religion without the theology. We cannot expect to have the soul stretching without Christian service.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Christian, Pain, Thinking

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• The ellipse is as aimless as that,
  Stretching invisibly into the future so as to reappear
  In our present. Its flexing is its account,
  Return to the point of no return.

  John Ashbery

  Life, Return, Flexing

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”, Penguin Group USA

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• But we are mostly what we are, and the turtle stretching toward delicious buds on high does not lighten his carapace by his resolve.

  Arthur Miller

  Turtles, Doe, Bud

  Arthur Miller (2012). “Timebends: A Life”, p.378, A&C Black

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• I do not believe that there was ever a question of being abstract or representational. It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing, and stretching one's arms again transcendental experiences became possible.

  Mark Rothko

  Believe, Breathing, Silence

  Mark Rothko (1997). “Mark Rothko”, Stewart Tabori & Chang

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• I like everything in my room has to be in order. If there's a wrinkle in the comforter, I'm stretching it out. But this is only when it comes to my room. Outside of there, I'm not as intense.

  Jacob Latimore

  Wrinkles, Order, Rooms

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• Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home.

  Rachael Ray

  Home, House, Kitchen

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• Yoga is not a religion. It is a science, science of well-being, science of youthfulness, science of integrating body, mind, and soul.

  Amit Ray

  Yoga, Meditation, Soul

  "Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style". Book by Amit Ray, May 29, 2012.

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• God must've had a blast. painting the stripes on the zebra, hanging the stars in the sky, putting the gold in the sunset. What creativity!
  Stretching the neck of the giraffe, putting the flutter in the mockingbird's wings, planting the giggle in the hyena. And then, as a finale to a brilliant performance, He made a human who had the unique honour to bear the stamp, In His Image.

  Max Lucado

  Stars, Zebras, Sunset

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• When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc... I see that they forget that the first requisite and rule is that expression shall be vital and natural.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Expression, Style, Firsts

  Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Uncommon Learning: Thoreau on Education”, p.106, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed.

  Rumi

  Hands, Balance, Would Be

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

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• To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Time, Climbing, Years

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1888). “Longfellow's Days: The Longfellow Prose Birthday Book : Extracts from the Journals and Letters of H. W. Longfellow”

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• When you run in the morning, you gain time. It's like stretching 24 hours into 25. You may need less sleep and get up earlier, but if you can get by that, running early seems to expand the day.

  Fred Lebow

  Running, Morning, Sleep

  Fred Lebow (1994). “New York Road Runners Club Complete Book of Running”, Random House Reference

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