๐ฌ Quotes
8,736 quotes from great books
"Walking-Stretch is not about reaching the destination faster, but about arriving in a better state of being."
โ Walking-Stretchby Karin Albrecht
"By synchronizing our breath with our stride, we transform a simple physical act into a moving meditation."
โ Walking-Stretchby Karin Albrecht
"Tension is often just unexpressed emotion trapped in our fascia; stretching is the key that unlocks it."
โ Walking-Stretchby Karin Albrecht
"When we walk with awareness, every step becomes a conscious dialogue between the earth and our core."
โ Walking-Stretchby Karin Albrecht
"True flexibility is not merely about lengthening muscles, but about cultivating a mind that adapts gracefully to change."
โ Walking-Stretchby Karin Albrecht
"Integrate movement into your daily life not as a chore to check off, but as a celebration of your body's capacity to heal and grow."
โ Walking-Stretchby Karin Albrecht
"No greater opportunity, responsibility, or obligation can fall to the lot of a human being than to become a physician. In the care of the sufferer, he needs technical skill, scientific knowledge, and understanding human nature."
โ Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicineby Tinsley Randolph Harrison
"To know the patient is as important as to know the disease."
โ Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicineby Tinsley Randolph Harrison
"Clinical diagnosis requires the careful gathering of historical data, a meticulous physical examination, and the judicious selection of diagnostic tests, synthesized through critical reasoning."
โ Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicineby Tinsley Randolph Harrison
"Disease is very largely an alteration of normal physiological processes, and the manifestations of disease are simply the responses of the body to abnormal stimuli."
โ Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicineby Tinsley Randolph Harrison
"The art of the practice of medicine is to care for the individual patient with compassion while applying the ever-expanding body of scientific knowledge."
โ Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicineby Tinsley Randolph Harrison
"Prevention of disease remains the ultimate goal of medicine; failing that, early diagnosis and prompt, rational treatment offer the best means for alleviation of suffering."
โ Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicineby Tinsley Randolph Harrison
"Culture being this idea of not having a blind human impulse, of following our best self, is necessarily a study of perfection."
โ Culture and Anarchyby Matthew Arnold
"The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. He who works for sweetness and light, works to make reason and the will of God prevail."
โ Culture and Anarchyby Matthew Arnold
"Philistism gives the notion of something rather low-cured, dull, and rigid."
โ Culture and Anarchyby Matthew Arnold
"Faith in machinery is our besetting danger, often in machinery as to wealth and bodily health, but oftener still as to freedom and instruction."
โ Culture and Anarchyby Matthew Arnold
"Culture looks beyond machinery; culture regards beauty and human nature, culture is born of a ceaseless endeavor to try new things."
โ Culture and Anarchyby Matthew Arnold
"The great men of culture are those who have had a passion for diffusing, for making prevail, for carrying from one end of society to the other, the best knowledge, the best ideas of their time."
โ Culture and Anarchyby Matthew Arnold
"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line, the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea."
โ Darkwater Voices from Within the Veilby W. E. B. Du Bois
"I believe in God, who made of one blood all nations on earth. I believe in the Negro Nation, whose anointing is the burden of its sorrow, and whose salvation is the grace of its redemption."
โ Darkwater Voices from Within the Veilby W. E. B. Du Bois