"You become writer by writing. It is a yoga."

-- R.K. Narayan

#Yoga Quotes #Writing Quotes

“We live fragmented, compartmentalized lives in which contradictions are carefully sealed off from each other. We have been taught to think linearly rather than comprehensively, and we do this not through conscious design or because we are not intelligent or capable, but because of the way in which deep cultural undercurrents structure life in subtle but highly consistent ways that are not consciously formulated.”
“Imagination is as close as we will ever be to godhead . . . for in imagination, we can create wonders.”
“He who would eat much must eat little, for by eating less he will live longer, and so be able to eat more.”
“The ancients, by their system of colonization, made themselves friends all over the known world; the moderns have sought to make subjects, and therefore have made enemies.”
“Those who understand the true nature of humanity are always loners.”
“With plants, persuasion is better than force.”
“One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.”

Source : Malcolm Muggeridge, Christopher Ralling (1967). “Muggeridge through the microphone: B.B.C. radio and television”, Not Avail
“I found it hard to make friends in school, because I was a cerebral person.”

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