"Often the wicked prosper, while the righteous starve; yet I would never exchange my state for theirs, my virtue for their gold. For mine endures, while riches change their owner every day."

-- Solon

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“Many married women who have deliberately spurned the "hour" of childbearing are unhappy and frustrated. They never discovered the joys of marriage because they refused to surrender to the obligation of their state. In saving themselves, they lost themselves!”
“Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to become.”

Source : Elizabeth Fishel (1985). “Sisters: Love and Rivalry Inside the Family and Beyond”, William Morrow & Company
“What we usually find is that when people think they have a new idea or approach something for the first time, it is actually a recurrence of a line of thinking explored in the past.”
“Galen Clark was the best mountaineer I ever met, and one of the kindest and most amiable of all my mountain friends.”
“It was not possible to broadcast any of that because of an agreement between Jackson and the family. Our legal advice was that we could not broadcast it.”

Source : "Jackson revelations were surprise, says Bashir". www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2003.
“Yoga's ultimate intent is to achieve something far deeper and more meaningful than just a better body or less stress and tension. Its ultimate aim is to help you hear your soul's call so that you can be consistently guided to make the best decisions - the ones that serve your highest state of wellbeing. In the process of doing so, you will necessarily be made more whole and act in such a way as to support the larger world of which you are a part.”

Source : "Yoga and Your Soul’s Four Desires" by Rod Stryker, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 13, 2011.
“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
“Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.”

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