"Reading is a very different thing than performing. In fact, one of the things I think that doesn't work in books on tape is if the person doing the reading "acts" too much; it becomes irritating to you listening to it."

--

Salman Rushdie

#Book Quotes #Reading Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.”
“Sometimes it is easy... to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of the court.”
“It’s still there, same as it ever was. But we see it differently as we get older.”
“Mystics understand the roots of the Tao but not its branches; scientists understand its branches but not its roots. Science does not need mysticism and mysticism does not need science; but man needs both.”

Source : "The Tao of Physics". Book by Fritjof Capra, 1975.
“I take the horsemanship very seriously and I treat it with the same integrity that one would any of the fine arts.”
“In Maybe I Will, Laurie Gray writes about important topics that teens need to talk about, including sexual assault, friendship, and alcoholism or self-destructive behaviors that result from trauma. Maybe I Will may help some teens know they're not alone.”
“Thought is a force - a manifestation of energy - having a magnet-like power of attraction.”

Source : William Walker Atkinson (2016). “THE POWER OF MIND - 17 Books Collection: The Key To Mental Power Development And Efficiency, Thought-Force in Business and Everyday Life, The Power of Concentration, The Inner Consciousness…: Suggestion and Auto-Suggestion + Memory: How to Develop, Train, and Use It, Practical Mental Influence + The Subconscious and the Superconscious Planes of Mind + Self-Healing by Thought Force…”, p.739, e-artnow
“You cannot be healthy; you cannot be happy; you cannot be prosperous; if you have a bad disposition.”

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