"It's true that I wouldn't have written the first book had my sister and mother been alive. It was my way of continuing our conversation. It's also this Jewish thing of naming and remembering people, and I think there is a sense of keeping that side of life going."

-- Nigella Lawson

#Mother Quotes #Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“A thing that is really done from the heart will one day or another again touch the hearts of others.”
“I'd catch a punt naked, in the snow, in Buffalo, for a chance to play in the NFL.”
“Dating is like trying to make a meal out of leftovers. Some leftovers actually get better when they've had a little time to mature. But others should be thrown out right away, No matter how you try to warm them up, they're never as good as when they were new.”
“What we pay for with our lives never costs too much.”
“Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.”
“Simply, there are many things I would like to do.”
“Defend the Bible? I would as soon defend a lion! Unchain it and it will defend itself.”
“I think this is why the practice is such a comfort to secular urbanites like me-it's a technique, not a faith. You don't have to believe in anything, even yoga itself, to find joy and solace in the conscious joining of breath and movement, or relief in slowing the whirling of the mind. You just have to do it.”

Source : Michelle Goldberg (2015). “The Goddess Pose: The Audacious Life of Indra Devi, the Woman Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West”, p.10, Vintage

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