"Look after the root of the tree, and the fragrant flower and luscious fruits will grow by themselves. Look after the health of the body, and the fragrance of the mind and richness of the spirit will follow."

-- B.K.S. Iyengar

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“The key to getting a reputation for being brilliant is actually being brilliant, not just acting like you are.”
“The replacement of negative thought with positive thought brings about a spiritual and physical change that can heal.”
“Priestley [said] that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.”
“If I waited to be in the mood to write, I'd barely have a chapbook of material to my name. Who would ever be in the mood to write? Do marathon runners get in the mood to run? Do teachers wake up with the urge to lecture? I don't know, but I doubt it. My guess is that it's the very act that is generative. The doing of the thing that makes possible the desire for it.”

Source : Dani Shapiro (2013). “Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life”, p.49, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so naive as to believe that a book will make it merely because it's good.”

Source : Richard Curtis (2003). “How To Be Your Own Literary Agent: An Insider's Guide to Getting Your Book Published”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I consider that my best performance ever was as Peer Gynt.”
“The temptation is not here, where you are reading about it or praying about it. It is down in your shop, among bales and boxes, ten-penny nails, and sand-paper.”
“To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.”

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