#Atheist Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Society Quotes
“Get growing. Back yourself and make mistakes. It's your mistakes and observations that are your greatest tutors.”
“Living your yoga is not just doing it, but being it.”
“Out of its squalor and human decay, its eruptions of butchery, India produced so many people of grace and beauty, ruled by elaborate courtesy. Producing too much life, it denied the value of life; yet it permitted a unique human development to so many. Nowhere were people so heightened, rounded and individualistic; nowhere did they offer themselves so fully and with such assurance. To know Indians was to take a delight in people as people; every encounter was an adventure. I did not want India to sink [out of my memory]; the mere thought was painful.”
“Too liberal self-accusations are generally but so many traps for acquittal with applause.”
“To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.”
“Have faith in your skills, negative thoughts kill. Self-doubt will kill your dreams before others do. Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.”
“What interests me, ... is why people are so repelled when, after all, everyone started life attached. In a sense, the twins have never been born because they are still tied by an umbilical cord. Relationships between women - daughters, mothers, friends - are one of my strong interests.”
“The tales we tell ourselves about ourselves makes us who we are.”
Claude C. Hopkins
Colin Thubron Writer
Stanley Wolpert Academic
Vladimir Nabokov Novelist