Quotes & Sayings About Celebrating Black History Month

Sadhana You may have noticed this about yourself: when you are feeling pleasant, you want to expand; when you are fearful, you want to contract. Try this. Sit for a few minutes in front of a plant or tree. Remind yourself that you are inhaling what the tree is exhaling, and exhaling what the tree is inhaling. Even if you are not yet experientially aware of it, establish a psychological connection with the plant. You could repeat this several times a day. After a few days, you will start connecting with everything around you differently. You won't limit yourself to a tree. Using this simple process, we at the Isha Yoga Center have unleashed an environmental initiative in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, under which twenty-one million trees have been planted since 2004. We spent several years planting trees in people's minds, which is the most difficult terrain! Now transplanting those onto land happens that much more effortlessly. — Sadhguru

My feet ain't got nothing to do with my nickname, but when folks get it in their heads that a feller's got big feet, soon the feet start looking big. — Satchel Paige

I am convinced that there is no great distance between heaven and earth, that the distance lies in our finite minds. When the Beloved visits us in the night, He turns our chambers into the vestibules of His palace halls. Earth rises to heaven when heaven comes down to earth. — Charles Spurgeon

But don't ever forget: adultery is also biblical grounds for forgiveness, healing, and restoration. — Craig Groeschel

We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff. — Dean Stanley

Chefs don't become chefs just to earn stars - that's not the goal. — Alain Ducasse

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand. — Lady Randolph Churchill

And whose fault was it that the boy swallowed down lies, when no one would feed him the truth? — Lois McMaster Bujold

and gamblers are dry and empty souls, their hearts have been sucked dry, there's no music in their walk, they are colorless and condemned. — Charles Bukowski

Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes. — Theodore Dreiser

Whatever people may say, the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class. In moments of crisis, the former know how to act, the latter become uncouth brutes. — Cesare Pavese

And I refused to make any sacrifices; for nothing on earth seemed more valuable than my peace of mind, my pleasure and my acclaim. — George Sand

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off. — Thomas Aquinas

Quirrell is, in effect, turned into a temporary Horcrux by Voldemort. He — J.K. Rowling

For me, it took five years to understand what professionalism meant. But I'm more settled now. I'm married, life changes, and I've been lucky in managing my injuries. — Brian O'Driscoll