Though a spinster gathering dust, Sarah was well aware that most men responded well to praise. So well, in fact, that she often wondered if most wars might have been averted if only a woman had been close by to inform the warring factions
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“The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.”
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“Of course,” Ysabeau replied. This phrase meant many things in his mother’s private lexicon. What it never meant was that she agreed with you.”
― The Book of Life
― The Book of Life
“The postures are only the "skin" of yoga. Hidden behind them are the "flesh and blood" of breath control and mental techniques that are still more difficult to learn, as well as moral practices that require a lifetime of consistent application and that correspond to the skeletal structure of the body. The higher practices of concentration, meditation and unitive ecstasy(samadhi) are analogous to the circulatory and nervous system." Georg Feuerstein The Deeper Dimension of Yoga”
― The Deeper Dimension of Yoga: Theory and Practice
― The Deeper Dimension of Yoga: Theory and Practice
“she had striven to make herself worthy of their love, shrinking deeper and deeper into herself in the hopes of one day becoming so inoffensive she would please them.”
― A Sinister Establishment
― A Sinister Establishment
“That was the trouble with humans—fear of the unknown could make them rash, taking action to destroy rather than to learn.”
― Finch Merlin and the Legend of the Luminary
― Finch Merlin and the Legend of the Luminary
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