Tara Brach Quotes
I decided to write 'True Refuge' during a major dive in my own health. Diagnosed with a genetic disease that affected my mobility, I faced tremendous fear and grief about losing the fitness and physical freedom I loved.
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I feel like if we're not running, we're basically disrespecting our bodies. When you're running, you're really using your body for what it's meant to do.
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For a long time, I thought I was going to play basketball. There's not many 6-4 white guys playing the three spot in the NBA, so I realized I probably didn't have much of a future in basketball and that football was probably going to be my best bet.
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Form can only be destroyed accidentally, i.e., on account of its connexion with substance, the true nature of which consists in the property of never being without a disposition to receive form.
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People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
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I didn't want to leave Newcastle, but that's football.
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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.
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I recently read an article on how I was dropped from a film because I couldn't dance! It was so ridiculous that I decided to shut up about it. Let people say what they want to. It's such a waste of time.
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I've always looked at 2016, but 2020 is realistic for me. I'll be 23 in 2016, but if I keep on progressing, hopefully 2016 will be a medal chance as well for me.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.
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In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.
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I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
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It's all about risk-taking when you're making an album. Don't be scared to do weird things sometimes.
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Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.
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The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.
Garry Kasparov -
It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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And let our despite go to those who work and fight and our hate to those who hope and trust.
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I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
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France can certainly accommodate foreign people on its soil long-term, those with foreign citizenship... as long as they respect French laws and French values, which is often a problem on the immigration issue. It's not really a problem with Israel on this topic.
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All of these things we do without children, and suddenly we don't do them anymore, and it comes home to us in a real way, that it's very different to have the responsibility of a child.
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I decided to write 'True Refuge' during a major dive in my own health. Diagnosed with a genetic disease that affected my mobility, I faced tremendous fear and grief about losing the fitness and physical freedom I loved.
