"Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being."

-- Marina Abramovic

#Understanding Quotes

“Practice is funny that way. For days and days, you make out only the fragments of what to do. And then one day you've got the thing whole. Conscious learning becomes unconscious knowledge, and you cannot say precisely how.”
“God knows the needs of his children, and he often works through us, prompting us to help one another. When we act on such promptings, we tread on holy ground, for we are allowed the opportunity to serve as an agent of God in answering a prayer.”
“I want women to really look like women from today. It's not from the past and not from the future, because I don't know what happens in the future. It is the woman of today (who) I think is a seductive woman.”
“I think that being a film composer, someone that gets it and actually applies the music, it allows you to open up a spectrum of feeling. You're now allowed to approach the music from an audio visual perspective.”

Source : "Above the Line: An Interview with Adrian Younge". AllHipHop.com Interview, allhiphop.com. July 10, 2015.
“Surround yourself with like-minded, strong people, use your voices and choose courage over fear.”
“To design is to plan, to order, to relate, and to control. In short, it opposes all means of disorder and accident.”
“Comparison with something that is better is the thief of joy. Comparison with something that is worse is a joy - full of relief and gratitude! You cannot always choose what happens to you or your circumstances but you can always choose your attitude by what you choose to compare your experiences or circumstances to and therefore how you will feel!! We can make any experience either a heaven or a hell by what we compare it to. Our emotions are 'an inside job!'”
“If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters.”

Source : Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. Persico (2010). “My American Journey”, p.198, Ballantine Books

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