"A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting."

-- Henry David Thoreau

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“Our everyday lives are filled with complex decisions. We long for simplicity and ordinariness.”
“Without a concise set of rules to follow we would probably all have to resort to common sense”

Source : David Thorne (2011). “The Internet is a Playground: Irreverent Correspondences of an Evil Online Genius”, p.38, Penguin
“I have an assuredness of myself. I never protect myself against it.”
“There is no waiting and no delayed gratification because yoga is both the means and the result, and the seed of all that is possible is present at the very beginning. This experience of stillness is possible in the first ten minutes of your first yoga class. It is possible in this very breath.”

Source : Donna Farhi (2011). “Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit: A Return to Wholeness”, p.6, Macmillan
“I'm a girl who loves fashion. I'm such a Cinderella - I love to put on a great dress and heels. It's fun!”
“I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance.”

Source : "Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal?". Book by Jeanette Winterson, 2011.
“I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all it is cracked up to be. But writing is. Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises. That thing you had to force yourself to do---the actual act of writing---turns out to be the best part. It's like discovering that while you thought you needed the tea ceremony for the caffeine, what you really needed was the tea ceremony. The act of writing turns out to be its own reward.”
“You can't overestimate the need to plan and prepare. In most of the mistakes I've made, there has been this common theme of inadequate planning beforehand. You really can't over-prepare in business!”

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