"Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed."

-- A. N. Wilson

#Birthday Quotes #School Quotes #Exercise Quotes

“Differences in religious beliefs, politics, social status, and position are all secondary. When we look at someone with compassion, we are able to see beyond these secondary differences and connect to the primary essence that binds all humans together as one.”
“I know it's a rare privilege, but if one can really tackle something in adult life that means that much to you, then it's more rewarding than anything I can imagine.”

Source : "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". The NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. November 1, 2000.
“Yoga is an ancient discipline in which physical postures, breath practice, meditation, and philosophical study are tools for achieving liberation. In my interpretation, achieving liberation in yoga means learning how to be present with everything that arises, whether it is pain or pleasure, sadness or joy, failure or success. And to be present with whatever arises, I believe we must not only be aware of what is arising but we must also be able to see all things that arise as equal, with detachment.”

Source : Rodney Yee (2004). “Moving Toward Balance: 8 Weeks of Yoga with Rodney Yee”, p.9, Rodale
“Why doesn't the United States take over the monarchy and unite with England? England does have important assets. Naturally the longer you wait, the more they will dwindle. At least you could use it for a summer resort instead of Maine.”
“Go to the winter woods: listen there, look, watch, and "the dead months" will give you a subtler secret than any you have yet found in the forest.”

Source : William Sharp, Elizabeth Amelia Sharp (1910). “The silence of amor. Where the forest murmurs”
“Proverbs were bright shafts in the Greek and Latin quivers.”
“In sober mornings do not thou rehearse The holy incantation of a verse”
“Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.”

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