"These are the lords That have bought titles: men may merchandise Wares, ay and traffic in all commodities From sea to sea, and from shore to shore: But in my thought, of all things that are sold, 'Tis pity honor should be bought for gold: It cuts off all desert."

-- Eliza Haywood

#Cutting Quotes #Men Quotes #Sea Quotes

“Our beliefs are the invisible ingredients in all our activities.”
“Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others.”
“Respecting yourself is key - physically and mentally.”
“The thing that makes us know that this "latter rain" that is flooding the world with the glory of God is of the Lord, is because the devil is not in such business.”
“â€ŽW. H. Auden once suggested that to understand your own country you need to have lived in at least two others. One can say something similar for periods of time: to understand your own century you need to have come to terms with at least two others. The key to learning something about the past might be a ruin or an archive but the means whereby we may understand it is--and always will be--ourselves.”
“Risks are a measure of people. People who won't take them are trying to preserve what they have. People who do take them often end up having more. Some risks have a future, and some people call them wrong. But being right may be like walking backwards proving where you've been. Being wrong isn't in the future, or in the past. Being wrong isn't anywhere but being here. Best place to be, eh?”
“Yoga changed my life. Hopefully, it will do that for others.”
“Art and order, the relatives that refuse to relate.”

Source : Elfriede Jelinek (2010). “The Piano Teacher”, p.83, Profile Books

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