"My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can."

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Source : Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1856). “The Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu”, p.346

Mary Wortley Montagu

#Study Quotes #Human Nature Quotes #Pleasure Quotes

“I'll tell you what pressure is. Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your arse. Playing cricket is not.”
“Criminals are opportunists. If you've got a booming market, they're going to get away with more fraud.”
“I have a writing addiction.”
“At my age you find yourself looking back from time to time and you begin to appreciate some of the things that happened to you.”
“I like doing Pilates because I get to lie down on the floor for the duration of the session.”
“Follow your nature. The practice is really about uncovering your own pose; we have great respect for our teachers, but unless we can uncover our own pose in the moment, it's not practice - it's mimicry. Rest deeply in Savasana every day. Always enter that pratyahara (withdrawn state) every day. And just enjoy yourself. For many years I mistook discipline as ambition. Now I believe it to be more about consistency. Do get on the mat. Practice and life are not that different.”

Source : Interview with Kelle Walsh, www.yogajournal.com. November 11, 2008.
“I never fail to be moved by knowing that the ground on which I walk is layered with the past- with achievement and strife and the repeated passions and conflicts of the human creature, always changing, always the same. Generations passing like grass.”
“You can't disengage yourself from that game if you are completely unaware of what people out there might be doing, you're just going to be tripped up, you're going to find yourself continually at a disadvantage.”

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