Himalayan Trip Quotes & Sayings

Monopathy, or over-specialisation, eventually retreats into defending what one has learnt rather than making new connections. The initial spurt of learning gives out, and the expert is left, like an animal, merely defending his territory. — Robert Twigger

I don't think it's easy to be married to anyone. — Jada Pinkett Smith

I do like beauty, but an older woman can be beautiful and a clever woman is beautiful because that beauty shines through. — Patrick Demarchelier

The Awakening

I dreamed that I was a rose
That grew beside a lonely way,
Close by a path none ever chose,
And there I lingered day by day.
Beneath the sunshine and the show'r
I grew and waited there apart,
Gathering perfume hour by hour,
And storing it within my heart,
Yet, never knew,
Just why I waited there and grew.

I dreamed that you were a bee
That one day gaily flew along,
You came across the hedge to me,
And sang a soft, love-burdened song.
You brushed my petals with a kiss,
I woke to gladness with a start,
And yielded up to you in bliss
The treasured fragrance of my heart;
And then I knew
That I had waited there for you. — James Weldon Johnson

Beauty is no accomplishment on its own. It's what you do with it. — Padma Lakshmi

If thou wilt receive profit, read with humility, simplicity and faith, and seek not at any time the fame of being learned. — Thomas A Kempis

I found university a little dispiriting. I thought I would enter the great halls of Plato, but instead I entered the halls of an intellectual sausage factory. I wanted to do something not on the main course, and chose the environment. — Bjorn Lomborg

Sometimes what we deem a failure at the time it happens actually serves to foster a change within us that creates an even greater success down the road. — Marianne Williamson

Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries. — Alan Hirsch

I have been tested in many ways, personally, I have beaten breast cancer, I buried a child to addiction. Professionally, you cannot go from being a secretary of nine-person real estate firm to the chief executive of the largest technology company in the world without having been tested over and over and over. — Carly Fiorina