I stand between two worlds. I am at home in neither, and I suffer in consequence. You artists call me a bourgeois, and the bourgeois try to arrest me…I don’t know which makes me feel worse.
THOMAS MANNThere are really only three things to learn in skiing: how to put on your skis, how to slide downhill, and how to walk along the hospital corridor.
More 3rd Baron Mancroft, Benjamin Mancroft Quotes
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Cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts.
JAMES ALLEN -
I belong to the givers. I want to give a little happiness even if I haven’t had much for myself. Music has enriched my life and, hopefully – through me, a little – the public’s. If anyone left an opera house feeling more happy and at peace, I achieved my purpose.
MARIA CALLAS -
A plant has to be watered but when it grows into a tree, it is no longer necessary. Similarly, if the inner consciousness becomes stronger, all these vikaar (distortions) get erased. Vishranti vikar mita (Deep rest removes negativity). There is no rest deeper than meditation.
SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR -
Righteous women in their circle of influence, beginning in the home, can turn the world around.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE -
Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.
B.K.S. IYENGAR -
Even the existence of this corporeal element, low as it in reality is, because it is the source of death and all evils, is likewise good for the permanence of the Universe and the continuation of the order of things, so that one thing departs and the other succeeds.
MAIMONIDES -
In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
BAZ LUHRMANN -
Every moment of your life is either a test or a celebration.
DAVID DEIDA -
To desire is to obtain to aspire is to achieve.
JAMES ALLEN -
It’s really simple – don’t make promises if you can’t stay long enough to go through them.
SONIA SABNIS -
Everything great I’ve done I did not think to do so.
CHELSIE DIANE -
My private life is perfect. If your private life and your life outside football is good, then it is good on the field for you.
DAVID BECKHAM -
Look, I debate for a living so I don’t need to learn any lessons from amateurs.
BILL O'REILLY -
My love for sports will never die. I love martial arts and I want to promote it in whichever way I can.
AKSHAY KUMAR -
Buy what you don’t have yet, or what you really want, which can be mixed with what you already own. Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.
KARL LAGERFELD