A Quote by James Geary
You only really discover the strength of your spine when your back is against the wall.
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My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall - that is my strength, my only strength.
This body is yours. No one can ever take it from you, if only you will accept yourself, claim it again--your arms, your spine, your ribs, the small of your back. It's all yours. All this bounty, all this beauty, all this strength and grace is yours. This garden is yours. Take it back. Take it back.
Comebacks don't seem likely when your back is up against the wall and your hope is depleted. But if you will stay the course, you will discover God's power to reverse the irreversible in your life.
When your back is against the wall, there is only one thing to do, and that is turn around and fight.
But sometimes, in tight corners, when your back is against the wall and the world is against you, you have to fight back in unexpected ways.
When your back is against the wall, your brain has to function at a high level.
It really strikes me how much of your energy in America, especially if you're from a working back-ground, is spent just keeping your head above water. It really saps your grace and your strength.
Be prepared to do whatever you have to do. If you get put in a situation where your back is up against the wall let your gun go off.
You are the age of your spine. You are as flexible as your spine. That transfers to other areas of your life.
The golf swing is a violent swing. You twist, and your spine is under continual stress when you're making a golf swing. Your neck, your spine, your hands, your knees, everything.
The impossible becomes possible when your back is against the wall
Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your back and runing its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do-the only thing-is run.
When your back is against the wall financially, creative juices flow.
Only so you can appeal to your God and pray Him to support and bless your courage, your work, your perseverance, your strength, your resolution, and with all these your claim on life.
The only good thing about having your back to the wall is that it makes it really easy to choose which way you're going to go.
The gods have been good to you. But what the gods give they quickly take away. You have only a few years in which to live really, perfectly, and fully. When your youth goes, your beauty will go with it, and then you will suddenly discover that there are no triumphs left for you, or have to content yourself with those mean triumphs that the memory of your past will make more bitter than defeats. Every month as it wanes bring you nearer to something dreadful. Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.
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