"No one is wise by birth, for wisdom results from one own's efforts."

-- Tirumalai Krishnamacharya

#Motivational Quotes #Wise Quotes #Yoga Quotes

“Instead of closing our eyes and bowing our heads, sometimes God wants us to keep our eyes open for people in need, do something about it, and bow our whole lives to Him instead.”
“When you talk about obesity, there's so many things that can cause that. It can be a medical thing, or down to the individual. There's a lot of other things involved than eating a Mars bar.”

Source : Interview with Simon Burnton, www.theguardian.com. March 25, 2010.
“Broken heart. A pump after all, pumping thousands of gallons of blood every day. One fine day it gets bunged up and there you are... Old rusty pumps: damn the thing else. The resurrection and the life. Once you are dead you are dead.”
“Oh, the things we invent when we are scared and want to be rescued.”
“Be prepared for negative responses sometimes. It doesn't have anything to do with you. It's just sometimes you're not the right look, or you're not really what they were envisioning.”
“Why else is politics the perfect refuge for every liar, cheat, and self-serving toad that was ever born? All you need is a good set of teeth and the ability to smile convincingly with them. --Cressida”

Source : Stuart Hill (2011). “The Icemark Chronicles #3: Last Battle of the Icemark”, p.215, Scholastic Inc.
“Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.”
“A true gangster can smell out a person's strenghts and weaknesses in a matter of minutes, but what they can sense most of all, what their bodies are most attuned to, is the scent of fear.”

Source : Lorenzo Carcaterra (2002). “Gangster”, p.311, Ballantine Books

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