"Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker."

Bakunin, Mikhail on authority   

"A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on anger   

"How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh."

Mencken, H. L. on suffering
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"Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on exercise
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"A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful? holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. Yet, added he, none of you can tell where it pinches me."

Plutarch on divorce   

"The best quality tea must have creases like the leather boot of Tartar horsemen, curl like the dewlap of a mighty bullock, unfold like a mist rising out of a ravine, gleam like a lake touched by a zephyr, and be wet and soft like a fine earth newly swept by rain."

Yu Lu on tea   

"When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature."

Duras, Marguerite on alcohol and alcoholism   

"He's the type who makes mountains out of molehills and then sells climbing equipment."

Ball, Ivern on exaggeration
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"I'm in my prime. There's no goal too far, no mountain too high."

Rudolph, Wilma on possibilities   

"Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley."

Rogers, James on adversity
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"When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself."

Unknown, Source on work
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"Sometimes you wonder how you got on this mountain. But sometimes you wonder, How will I get off?"

Manley, Joan on careers
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"It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe."

Service, Robert W. on challenges
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"People have a natural tendency to flee to the mountains when things get tough."

Briscoe, Stuart on difficulties   

"One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time."

Wanamaker, John on action
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"Enough shovels of earth -- a mountain. Enough pails of water -- a river."

Proverb, Chinese on growth
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"Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains"

Cady, Emilie on adversity
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"Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on challenges
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"Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills."

Ward, William A. on success   

"The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective."

Neuharth, Al on perception
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"It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves."

Hillary, Sir Edmund on obstacles
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"Climb mountains to see lowlands."

Proverb, Chinese on growth   

"First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is."

Aphorism, Zen on world   

"The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on challenges
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"Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was."

Hammarskjold, Dag on possibilities
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"One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks."

Penn, Jack on success
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"Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet."

Friedman, Milton on risk   

"If it wasn't for dogs, some people would never go for a walk."

Unknown, Source on animals
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"I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me."

Allen, Fred A. on exercise
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"He who walks with the lame learns how to limp."

Proverb, Latin on action   

"He who limps is still walking."

Lec, Stanislaw J. on action
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"All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on walking
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"Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake."

Stevens, Wallace on truth
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"The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk."

Joubert, Joseph on anger
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"To lead people walk behind them."

Lao-Tzu on leadership
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"Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees."

Baker, Karl on growth
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"Walking uplifts the spirit. Breathe out the poisons of tension, stress, and worry; breathe in the power of God. Send forth little silent prayers of goodwill toward those you meet. Walk with a sense of being a part of a vast universe. Consider the thousands of miles of earth beneath your feet; think of the limitless expanse of space above your head. Walk in awe, wonder, and humility. Walk at all times of day. In the early morning when the world is just waking up. Late at night under the stars. Along a busy city street at noontime."

Peterson, Wilferd A. on spirituality
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"Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way."

Prior, Matthew on goals
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"I walk slowly, but I never walk backward."

Lincoln, Abraham on progress   

"We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in Gods good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old. "

Churchill, Winston on uncategorised
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