"You can have no idea, if you have not tried, how difficult it is to find out anything whatever from an encyclopedia, unless you know all about it already ..."

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Source : Gwen Raverat (2003). “Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood”, p.112, Clear Press Ltd

Gwen Raverat

#Knowledge Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Difficult Quotes

“I came out of school just at the time regional theater was first expanding. All of a sudden, lots of new companies needed actors.”
“That's what yoga teaches: how to be fully present now, no matter the circumstance.”

Source : Tara Stiles (2012). “Yoga Cures: Simple Routines to Conquer More Than 50 Common Ailments and Live Pain-Free”, p.21, Harmony
“The body is a universe in itself and must be held as sacred as anything in creation....It is dangerous to forget the body as sacramental.”
“Sometimes you can do things for others that you can't do for yourself.”
“It is not how tall you are, it is how GOOD you are.”
“Obedience is the fruit of faith.”
“All human beings search for either reasons to be good, or excuses to be bad.”
“We write about ourselves because we know about ourselves.”

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