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“I will tell you what I have learned myself. For me, a long five or six mile walk helps. And one must go alone and every day.”
Brenda Ueland
“The species has no sting, and does not display active resistance when interfered with. I once imagined they exercised a sort of superintendence over the others; but this function is entirely unnecessary in a community where all work with a precision and regularity resembling the subordinate parts of a piece of machinery.”
Henry Walter Bates
“Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day. That is, be systematically ascetic or heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.”
William James
“One should try to do everything that is required to make the body pure and radiant- regular exercise,self-study,etc. Anybody who does this is blessed with long-life and radiance. ”
Yajur Veda
“Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.”
Winston Churchill
“Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; be courteous to your creditors; keep your digestion good; exercise; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy; but, my friend, these I rec”
Abraham Lincoln
“It is solved by walking”
Latin Proverb
“It's a combination of eating consciously, vigorous exercise and being comfortable in my body.”
Oprah Winfrey
“The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.”
C.S. Lewis
