"Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know."

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Source : Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

Leo Tolstoy

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“I loved eating and I did put on weight. I never actually felt fat until I started going for castings, for auditions.”
“The clairvoyant is simply a man who develops within himself the power to respond to another octave out of the stupendous gamut of possible vibrations, and so enables himself to see more of the world around him than those of more limited perception.”

Source : Charles Webster Leadbeater “Man Visible and Invisible:Examples of Different Types of Men as Seen by Means of Trained Clairvoyance”, Lulu.com
“I always liked spy stories.”
“Yoga nidra is the yoga of aware sleep. In this lies the secret of self healing. Yoga Nidra is a pratyahara technique in which the distractions of the mind are contained and the mind is relaxed.”
“I would love to make a 1830's period piece, a house in the country, a classic atmospheric haunted house movie, visually it would be so beautiful, the costumes, the candles, the darkness, and the quiet, no radio, to TV, the clock ticking away.”

Source : "Conor McPherson and Ciarán Hinds of 'The Eclipse'". Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.maxlazebnik.com. March 25, 2010.
“The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it.”
“There's no reason to be non-violent. There's no challenge unless you are living for people.”
“False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.”

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