Flexing Muscle Quotes

#1. The richness of our lives depends on what we are willing to notice and what we are willing to believe.

Polly Horvath

#2. Actually, music gave me the support when I needed it. I would never have gone to college unless I'd gotten a piano scholarship. And now I'm so glad I got to learn to play the cello, which is a different experience, you're flexing a different muscle, but it's beautiful because it is music.

Jamie Foxx

#3. What do you need to know in order to live and die in the joy of this comfort?

Cornelis Vonk

#4. He [an earnest young reporter] seemed to share the view of many intelligent, well-educated, well-meaning people that, while adult literature may aim to be art, the object of children's books is to whip the little rascals into shape.

Katherine Paterson

#5. I am moved by the spirit of Angolans and the work UNICEF is doing, but I am saddened by the hardships I have seen, and the fact that a little flexing of financial muscle from rich countries could do so much.

Alyssa Milano

#6. With so much effort being poured into church growth, so much press being given to the benefits of faith, and so much flexing of religious muscle in the public square, the poor in spirit have no one but Jesus to call them blessed anymore.

Barbara Brown Taylor

#7. I'd like to bite that lip, he whispers darkly.
I gasp, completely unaware that I am chewing my bottom lip and my mouth pops open. That has to be the sexiest thing anybody has ever said to me. My heartbeat spikes, and I think I'm panting. Jeez, I'm a quivering, mess, and he hasn't even touched me.

E.L. James

#8. Those have most power to hurt us, that we love.

Francis Beaumont

#9. Don't fear to take a daring action. It is truest act to your destiny.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. Each moment can become a full expression of your core desire.

David Deida

#11. The obvious precedent for Beijing 2008 was the Berlin Olympics, in 1936. Both were showcases for a muscle-flexing nation, although Hitler made an elementary error when he chose not to dress his young National Socialists in lime-green catsuits laced with twinkling fairy lights.

Anthony Lane

#12. I wanted this world to still. I wanted to fix it and be fixed within it. But everything was on the move, the clouds, the wind ...

Hisham Matar

#13. Honor without power was a useless decoration and power without honor was the simple flexing of muscle

H.J. Brues

#14. I don't think we have a right to enjoy our neuroses; in fact, I believe that we have a duty not to. But we cannot walk away from ourselves. Who else is there to become?

Colm Toibin

#15. The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#16. The heart is a river. The act of writing is the moving water that holds the banks apart, keeps the muscle of words flexing so that the reader can be carried along by this movement. To be given space and the chance to leave one's earthly world. Is there any greater freedom than this?

Helen Humphreys

#17. Self-compassion is like a muscle. The more we practice flexing it, especially when life doesn't go exactly according to plan (a frequent scenario for most of us), the stronger and more resilient our compassion muscle becomes.

Sharon Salzberg

#18. Not everything worth learning is summarized in book. Sometimes you've got to rely on instincts.

Samanthe Beck