#graceful

Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#down #elves #focused #graceful #grounded

I get it now; I didn't get it then. That life is about losing and about doing it as gracefully as possible... and enjoying everything in between. ↗

— Mia Farrow

#between #doing #enjoying #everything #get

Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it. ↗

— Douglas Hyde

#every #graceful #legend #lonely #own

Ersken gathered the dice, put them in the cup they had used for play, and tucked it inside one bound Rat's shirt. "Let that be a lesson to you not to gamble," he told the Rat soberly. "The trickster asks you pay for any luck you may have, one way or another." "Bless the boy, he's a priest with it," one of the Goddess warriors said with a grin. "After this, laddie, what's say I take you home and rub some of that off yez?" Ersken actually winked at her! "Forgive me, gracious warrior, but my woman would turn me into something unnatural if I took you up on your kind offer," he replied as if he truly regretted it. "She's a mage and I'd best stay devoted. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#gamblers #graceful-letdown #guards #repriminding #forgiveness

People's opinions don't interfere with me. Ageing gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. That's what they call ageing gracefully. You know? ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

#call #gracefully #hide #interfere #just

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time. ↗

— Malcolm Muggeridge

#action #appropriate #appropriate time #been #exit

The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#best #best part #gracefully #grow #how

I believe in aging gracefully. ↗

— Tatjana Patitz

#believe #gracefully #i #i believe #i believe in

It has been my face. It's got older still, or course, but less, comparatively, than it would otherwise have done. It's scored with deep, dry wrinkles, the skin is cracked. But my face hasn't collapsed, as some with fine feature have done. It's kept the same contours, but its substance has been laid waste. I have a face laid waste. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#aging-gracefully #age

Golf is an awkward set of bodily contortions designed to produce a graceful result. ↗

— Tommy Armour

#bodily #designed #golf #graceful #produce