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• The awareness that we cultivate is what makes yoga a practice, rather than a task or a goal to be completed. Your body will most likely become much more flexible by doing yoga, and so will your mind.

  Cyndi Lee

  Yoga, Practice, Goal

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• I lay my tasks down one by one; I sit in the silence of twilight grace. Out of the shadows, deep and dun, Steals, like a star, my Baby's face. .... I will take up my work once more, As if I had never laid it down. Who will dream that I ever wore, In triumph, motherhood's sacred crown? .... Nevertheless, the way is long, And tears leap up in the light of the sun. I'd give my world for a cradle-song, And a kiss from Baby?only one.

  Mary C. Ames

  Dream, Song, Baby

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• The task of the media in a democracy is not to ease the path of those who govern, but to make life difficult for them by constant vigilance as to how they exercise the power they only hold in trust from the people.

  Jimmy Reid

  Exercise, Media, People

  "We don't want a gravy train for the well-connected few" by Jimmy Reid, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 1999.

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• Extreme cold when it first arrives seems to generate cheerfulness and sociability. For a few hours all life's dubious problems are dropped in favor of the clear and congenial task of keeping alive.

  E. B. White

  Weather, Dubious, Alive

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• For, once begun, Your task is easy; half the work is done.

  Horace

  Done, Half, Easy

  "A Poetical Translation of the Works of Horace: With Notes Collected from His Best Latin and French Commentators".

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• The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable of performing.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Rights, Duty

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2016). “The Will to Power, Book I to IV: An Attempted Transvaluation of all Values (Complete)”, p.576, Library of Alexandria

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• It is no easy task to lead men. But it is easy enough to drive them.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Men, Easy, Enough

  Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore (1968). “Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India”

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• The task of the artist is to sense more keenly than others the harmony of the world, the beauty and the outrage of what man has done to it, and poignantly to let people know.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Art, Men, People

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• In military science there is a principle more important than "Forward": it is that the task should be proportionate to the means.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Military, Mean, Important

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1974). “August 1914”, Harmondsworth : Penguin

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• Hark! the hours are softly calling Bidding Spring arise To listen to the rain-drops falling From the cloudy skies To listen to Earth’s weary voices Louder every day Bidding her no longer linger On her charm’d way But hasten to her task of beauty Scarcely yet begun.

  Adelaide Anne Procter

  Spring, Rain, Fall

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• The key to managing fear and life's tasks is to take the time daily to get organized.

  Jude Bijou

  Keys, Organized

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• All of us in the Senate live in an iron lung-the iron lung of politics, and it is no easy task to emerge from that rarified atmosphere in order to breathe the same fresh air our constituents breathe.

  John F. Kennedy

  Air, Order, Iron

  John F. Kennedy (1964). “Profiles In Courage”

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• Father, I beg of Thee a little task To dignify my days, 'tis all I ask.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Father, Littles, Thee

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.132, eBookIt.com

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• After two years studying what rewrite men did with the facts I phoned them, I knew that journalism was essentially a task of stringing together seamlessly an endless series of cliches.

  Russell Baker

  Men, Years, Two

  Russell Baker (1984). “Growing Up”, Signet Book

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• Life as we find it is too hard for us; it entails too much pain, too many disappointments, impossible tasks. We cannot do without palliative remedies.

  Sigmund Freud

  Pain, Disappointment, Too Much

  Sigmund Freud (1952). “Major Works”

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• Each soul must accomplish its task, or it would not have been sent here.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Soul, Purpose, Accomplish

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• The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not alter his rhyme.

  Robert Breault

  Art, Poetry, Doe

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• As you reach for understanding, you find that your ladder of facts isn’t long enough, and you try to extend it by adding a rung of faith. Eventually you see that the task is hopeless, and you put away your ladder of facts and go get a ladder of faith.

  Robert Breault

  Faith, Long, Understanding

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• Life is a series of tasks that you absolutely must get done before they don't matter any more.

  Robert Breault

  Perspective, Done, Matter

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• Our task shouldn't be punishing the villains in our lives, but enlarging the God who heals us from all wounds.

  Mary E. DeMuth

  Villain, Heal, Our Lives

  Mary E DeMuth (2012). “Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus”, p.34, Thomas Nelson

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• Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Quests, Taught, Life Is

  "Optimism Or Overconfidence?" by Blythe McGarvie, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 5, 2010.

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• The Trojans lost the war because they fell for a really dumb trick. hey, there's a gigantic wooden horse outside and all the Greeks have left. Let's bring it inside! Not a formula for long-term survival. Now if they had formed a task force to study the Trojan Horse and report back to a committee, everyone wouldn't have been massacred.. Who says middle management is useless?

  Adam C. Engst

  Horse, War, Middle Management

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• To keep Nigeria ONE, is a task that must be DONE.

  Barack Obama

  Done, Nigeria

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• Lay hold of today's task, and you will not depend so much upon tomorrow's.

  Seneca the Younger

  Work, Today, Tomorrow

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• When his (the good ruler's) task is accomplished and his work done, The people all say, "It happened to us naturally.

  Laozi

  Leadership, People, Done

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