"My father chose my name , and my last name was chosen by my ancestors . Thatâ€™s enough, I myself choose my way"

-- Ali Shariati

#Father Quotes #Names Quotes #Way Quotes

“In yoga practice, over time you use fewer muscles more efficiently. Expansion does require energy, but it should not require a great deal of effort.”
“Life is sometimes sad and often dull, but there are currants in the cake, and here is one of them.”

Source : Nancy Mitford (2010). “The Pursuit of Love”, p.182, Vintage
“When a man becomes old, his greed becomes young: sleep grows heavy at the time of morning.”
“My studio works in cycles. I am consistent with all of the practices, but I give attention to one part for a certain amount of time. I say, "Okay, I'm making performances," and sometimes that means I can't be making photographic works. As I'm maturing as an artist, years have passed and I feel that I'm becoming a better craftsperson in multiple fields, but that takes time. Also, because I trained as an actor, I hold this thing about how an actor prepares and therefore I try to prepare for all of my tasks.”
“The profound meaning of music's essential aim... is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being”
“A Pulitzer Prize is awaiting the journalist who can find an American who dies of hunger, and probably the Nobel Prize for literature as well.”
“The wealth of society is its stock of productive labor.”

Source : Sir James Mackintosh (1848). “The miscellaneous works of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh”, p.429
“The greatest heresy in the American Evangelical and Protestant church is that if you pray and ask Jesus Christ to come into your heart, He will definitely come in!”

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