"Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for indefinitely long periods of time."

-- B.K.S. Iyengar

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“May an elephant caress you with his toes”
“I grant this mode of secluding boys from the intercourse of private families has a tendency to make them scholars, but our business is to make them men, citizens, and Christians. The vices of young people are generally learned from each other. The vices of adults seldom infect them. By separating them from each other, therefore, in their hours of relaxation from study, we secure their morals from a principal source of corruption, while we improve their manners by subjecting them to those restraints which the difference of age and sex naturally produce in private families.”
“I grew up where my parents would literally shove me in the car rather than have to say hello to a neighbor.”
“Threads that drift alone will sometimes simply twine themselves together, without need for spindle or distaff: brought into each otherâ€™s ambit, they bind themselves tight with the force of their own torsion. And this same torsion can, in the course of things, bundle the resulting cord back upon itself, ravelling it up into a skein, returning to the point of its beginning.”
“I've always fought for my country, in my own way, showing that Filipinos are a strong people and can do anything that they put their minds to.”
“Time, which measures everything in our idea, and is often deficient to our schemes, is to nature endless and as nothing; it cannot limit that by which alone it had existence; and as the natural course of time, which to us seems infinite, cannot be bounded by any operation that may have an end, the progress of things upon this globe, that is, the course of nature, cannot be limited by time, which must proceed in a continual succession.”

Source : James Hutton (1788*). “Theory of the earth; or an investigation of the laws observable in the composition, dissolution and restoration of land upon the globe. (From. the Trans., Roy. soc. of Edinb.).”, p.7
“I have very girly hands and I use them a lot when I talk in a way that I think is very feminine.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“By push of bayonets, no firing until you see the whites in their eyes!”

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