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Yoga is bringing suppleness in body, calmness in mind, kindness in heart and awareness in life.
When you really consider the everyday things around you, they start to seem like tiny miracles.
It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth.
Sexual intercourse... a joyous, joyous, joyous, joyous impaling of woman on man's sensual mast.
Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but freedom, utter freedom, is death
No matter how American I become, I'm considered part of the Chinese community by my own family.
Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.
Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.
In a discussion, the difficulty lies, not in being able to defend your opinion, but to know it.
I am a working person. I always work, study or do research for my novel. I even work on Sunday.
Stress is not the spice of life any more than arsenic is. And without it, you won't feel bored.
Life is a fight, but not everyone’s a fighter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species.
Two rules: You enter without breaking. And you remember that nobody misses what you don't take.
I really like Septimus Heap. he is my favorite guy in the story. I should make you all read it.
After people have gone, you forget their faults, and you recall the ideal more than the person.
Writing was something I always as a kid thought would be fabulous and glamorous to be a writer.
A person has to be strong in life. A person must practice strength, even if they don't feel it.
Are stress and worry evidence of a soul too lazy, too undisciplined, to keep gaze fixed on God?
And when I give thanks for the seemingly microscopic, I make a place for God to grow within me.
If the Church is a body, and the body is a business, isn't that the same thing as prostitution?
All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.
I have a cat, the pet that ranks just above a throw pillow in terms of required responsibility.
I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.
Who knows, perhaps he doesn't care about me at all and look at the others in just the same way.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
When the heart is flooded with love there is no room in it for fear, for doubt, for hesitation.
Rivers perhaps are the only physical features of the world that are at their best from the air.
But I want first of all- in fact, as an end to these other desires- to be at peace with myself.
Cut asparagus at night - in desperation. When one is very tired one always does one more thing.
I’d thought I knew what beauty was in women; but she’d surpassed all the language I had for it.
Truth is naturally universal...and shines into many different windows, though many are clouded.
You need only examine your present situation to discover unlimited resources and opportunities.
I cannot think of any work that could be more agreeable and fun than making books for children.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.
A happy marriage is a new beginning of life, a new starting point for happiness and usefulness.
We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff.
Fortunately in my work there's always a choice: I can choose to do it willingly or unwillingly.
By the miracle of teaching, I can give you some of my ability, without losing any of it myself.
As long as I have you there is just one other thing I'll always need - tremendous self control.
What's most interesting about some books is the question: How did this crap ever get published?
Life is a process of losing our illusions, until we finally lose the illusion that we're alive.
I want to be remembered as a storyteller more than someone who had something meaningful to say.
If there is one city apart from Mumbai where I would love to settle down, it has to be Chennai.
The first thriller ever? It was probably one from 1697. It was called 'Little Red Riding Hood.'