Formulative Mediation Quotes

#1. Just like in bodybuilding, failure is also a necessary experience for growth in our own lives, for if we're never tested to our limits, how will we know how strong we really are? How will we ever grow?

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#2. Especially for my father it was a great change. He used to be a socialist and even a member of the socialist party. But then he became an orthodox Jew.

Leon Askin

#3. I play for me and I play to win, but it gives me great pleasure to represent Mexico.

Lorena Ochoa

#4. Don't go away. I don't want to be alone. I can't stand being alone.

Arnold Rothstein

#5. It was demeaning to scrape affection from virtually everyone you encountered. That was immature.

John Knowles

#6. Fear saps passion.

Steven Pressfield

#7. Anger. Infidelity. Death. Dark times - that's what these memories were. Ceony had passed through Emery's goodness and his hopes; it made sense to see his darkness, too. To see his hurts and his vices. To see the shadows cast behind those bright eyes.

Charlie N. Holmberg

#8. My goal is always, how do you get better?

Oprah Winfrey

#9. Look twice before you leap.

Charlotte Bronte

#10. We may outrun By violent swiftness And lose by over-running.

William Shakespeare

#11. Well," Etta said weakly, "she's always told me a good challenge builds character."
"Then we'll have an excess of it," he said dryly.

Alexandra Bracken

#12. Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.

Agnes De Mille