"Everyday brings a choice: to practice stress or to practice peace."

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Source : Joan Z. Borysenko, Ph.D. (2009). “Inner Peace for Busy People (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition)”, p.24, ReadHowYouWant.com

Joan Z. Borysenko

#Stress Quotes #Practice Quotes #Choices Quotes

“If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?”
“When I first started out in my career, I'd been a lit major in college so I didn't have a lot of choices. The traditional options were management consultant or investment banking, and I hadn't even taken an economics class so those were pretty much out. I didn't want to go into academia. For me, research and instinct were my unique tools that seemed to work best on a marketing and merchandizing path. It's kind of right-brain and left-brain.”
“It is very clear from the historical record that without British help neither Wahhabism nor the House of Saud would be in existence today. Wahhabism is a British-inspired fundamentalist movement in Islam. Through its defense of the House of Saud, the US also supports Wahhabism directly and indirectly regardless of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Wahhabism is violent, right wing, ultra-conservative, rigid, extremist, reactionary, sexist, and intolerant.”
“It's not often that you get a director, singing the praises of his executives.”
“I now never make the preparations for penetrating into some small province of nature hitherto undiscovered without breathing a prayer to the Being who hides His secrets from me only to allure me graciously on to the unfolding of them.”
“I don't mind going into a liberal lion's den. That's where you test yourself.”
“The perennial architectural debate has always been, and will continue to be, about art versus use, visions versus pragmatism, aesthetics versus social responsibility. In the end, these unavoidable conflicts provide architecture's essential and productive tensions; the tragedy is that so little of it rises above the level imposed by compromise, and that this is the only work most of us see and know.”

Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.34, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“Pain was their body's way of telling them that they'd pushed themselves to their limits - which was exactly where they were supposed to be.”

Source : Richard Marcinko (1997). “Leadership Secrets of the Rogue Warrior: A Commando's Guide to Success”

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