"It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self."

-- George Eliot

#Self Quotes #Taught Quotes #Aging Quotes

“The compulsion of fate is bitter.”

Source : "Oberon". Book by Christoph Martin Wieland, Ch.V, p.60, 1780.
“Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.”

Source : Havelock Ellis (2012). “Little Essays of Love and Virtue”, p.46, tredition
“The idea is that to grasp an idea like equality or justice, you can't look at the equal and just or unjust things in the world around you, you have to somehow ascend to or maybe remember some kind of idea of equality and justice and this would be a Platonic form, and it would be different from the things that partake in the form.”

Source : Source: www.abc.net.au
“They all looked like a shampoo commercial, healthy and clear-skinned, perfectly proportioned, a group of handsome young men. Their clothes hung on them like they were glad to be gracing such supermodels.”
“Before I forget ...Beware the Ides of March.”
“Your weaknesses will never develop, while your strengths will develop infinitely.”
“Success in life could be defined as the continued expansion of happiness and the progressive realization of worthy goals. Success is the ability to fulfill your desires with effortless ease. And yet success, including the creation of wealth, has always been considered to be a process that requires hard work and it is often considered to be at the expense of others. We need a more spiritual approach to success and to affluence which is the abundant flow of all good things to you.”

Source : Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams”, p.8, Amber-Allen Publishing
“I basically go to the gym three times a week to do weight training for one or two hours.”

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