1,154 Quotes About Exercise




  • Author Nora Roberts
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    squats are a form of torture designed by people who don’t need to do squats in the first place

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  • Author Haruki Murakami
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    Listening to the music while stretching her body close to its limit, she was able to attain a mysterious calm. She was simultaneously the torturer and the tortured, the forcer and the forced. This sense of inner-directed self-sufficiency was what she wanted most of all. It gave her deep solace.

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  • Author Rebecca Solnit
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    ...the gym is a kind of wildlife preserve for bodily exertion. A preserve protects species whose habitat is vanishing elsewhere, and the gym (and home gym) accommodates the survival of bodies after the abandonment of the original sites of bodily exertion.

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