"You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express."

-- Marya Mannes

#Integrity Quotes #Sacrifice Quotes #Honor Quotes

“I used to get out there and have a thousand swing thoughts. Now I try not to have any.”
“The point of yoga is to develop a level of clarity and self-understand ing so that when we’re done doing our yoga practice we make really good decisions, because that will determine whether we’re fulfilled. Not the quality of our poses. But really the yoga is what happens when we’re done practicing yoga.”
“If I fall and break my neck, will you say something nice at my funeral?" "Like 'Kyler was usually more graceful?”
“My father used to say: "Never suspect people, It's better to be deceived or mistaken, which is only human, after all, than to be suspicious, which is common."”

Source : Stark Young (1935). “Feliciana”
“If the amount of money going into the war economy were invested in landscape restoration, we would be in a far more positive position. It may get a little dire before we pull together, but I think when the prosperous nations, and in particular the US, realise they're wrecking their own kids' lives, there will be a mass change in value. It will be a difficult century, and ugly, but I don't think that in the end people are so stupid as to kill themselves off.”

Source : "Future tense". Interview with Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2005.
“I wrote a query letter to an editor - a friend of a friend. The editor called me an idiot, told me never to contact an editor directly, and then recommended three literary agents he had worked with before. Laurie Fox was one of them, and I've never looked back.”
“If you can't meditate in a boiler room, you can't meditate.”
“I don't even remember hearing about [Immorality Act of 1927]. I just knew about it. I was born into it, so I don't remember my parents ever saying it to me. I don't remember a conversation ever being had around this. I just knew this to be the law because that's what I was growing up in during that time in South Africa.”

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