"Do whatever you please, follow your own star; be original if you want to be and donâ€™t if you donâ€™t want to be. Just be natural and gay and light-hearted and pretty and simple and overflowing and general and baroque and bare and austere and stylised and wild and daring and conservative, and learn and learn and learn. Open your mind to every form of beauty."

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Source : Constance Spry (1940). “Constance Spry's Garden Notebook”

Constance Spry

#Stars Quotes #Gay Quotes #Simple Quotes

“It's exciting to be able to do something completely independent without anybody challenging it, and it's a big part of the reason why I'm enjoying doing the stand-up comedy, is I'm able to go out and interact with people one-on-one after the show. It's very punk-rock.”
“Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Stillness is not the absence or negation of energy, life, or movement. Stillness is dynamic. It is unconflicted movement, life in harmony with itself, skill in action. It can be experienced whenever there is total, uninhibited, unconflicted participation in the moment you are inâ€”when you are wholeheartedly present with whatever you are doing.”

Source : Erich Schiffmann (2013). “Yoga The Spirit And Practice Of Moving Into Stilln”, p.3, Simon and Schuster
“If somebody's looking at pictures of naked people and you go, 'Oh I don't want to see that,' you're lying. Cause naked people are always interesting. Always. Whether they're beautiful, or naked or 500 pounds.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The incapacity of a weak and distracted government may often assume the appearance and produce the effects of a treasonable correspondence with the public enemy. If Alaric himself had been introduced into the council of Ravenna, he would probably have advised the same measures which were actually pursued by the ministers of Honorius.”
“I study the Bible all week, pray to the Lord, and then I speak from my heart. It's all about brutal honesty.”
“People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.”

Source : James W. Loewen (2013). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.44, The New Press
“A powerful athlete is not a strong athlete, but one who can exert his strength quickly. Since power equals force times speed, if the athlete learns to make faster movements he increases his power, even though the contractile pulling strength of his muscles remains unchanged. Thus, a smaller man who can swing faster may hit as hard or as far as the heavier man who swings slowly.”

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