#stroke

The medical literature tells us that the most effective ways to reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, Alzheimer's, and many more problems are through healthy diet and exercise. Our bodies have evolved to move, yet we now use the energy in oil instead of muscles to do our work. ↗

— David Suzuki

#bodies #cancer #diabetes #diet #disease

What remained would gradually acquire its own shape and dimension, but many of our favorite things, my favorite ways of being a couple, had vanished and it was no use pretending, hoping, wishing that he would return to his old self, and me to mine. [p. 156] ↗

— Diane Ackerman

#love

Caregiving offers many fringe benefits, including the sheer sensory delight of nourishing and grooming, sharing, and playing. But caregiving does buttonhole you; you're stitched in one place. . . . Paul wasn't on a learning curve but seemed trapped in a circle. He's swoop forward only to loop back again and fall to earth. ↗

— Diane Ackerman

#love

Tennis players we're always playing in center courts that feel like arenas. And when we get on the court and the crowd cheers your name or salutes you - it's like you're a gladiator in the arena. And everyone is cheering - and you're fighting, you're screaming, during your strokes - it feels like you're an animal, fighting for your life. ↗

— Novak Djokovic

#animal #arena #arenas #center #cheering

And I usually use myself as a model, posing in front of a mirror as I dab the strokes on the canvas. ↗

— Cleo Moore

#front #i #mirror #model #myself

Well, I am not interested in the kind of expression that you have when you paint a painting with brush strokes. It's all right, but it's already done and I want to do something new. ↗

— Donald Judd

#am #brush #done #expression #i

In these days of modern tennis a player is as strong as his weakest stroke. ↗

— Bill Tilden

#his #modern #player #stroke #strong

The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness. ↗

— Julia Ward Howe

#much #need #needs #pen #strokes

The film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle. ↗

— Victoria Abril

#kept #luck #me #miracle #real

I have a tip that can take 5 strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser. ↗