She has lost full range of motion, flexibility, and is in constant pain.

There seems to be a great pillow in the middle. Creativity and flexibility are discouraged.

The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. And a man who has a few friends, or one who has a dozen (if there be any one so wealthy on this earth), cannot forget on how precarious a base his happiness reposes; and how by a stroke or two of fate /a death, a few light words, a piece of stamped paper, a woman's bright eyes /he may be left, in a month, destitute of all.

The writer as boxer says he develops by, "learning from everyone who'll spar with me.

If we lived the plans we do more as bets than as forecasts, we would be less anxious and more prepared for the unexpected.

Dad's big watchword was flexibility . . . so much stuff happens (in school and in life) you have to be ready and flexible,