Klijent Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes people fast for days. ... When the worst man has fasted for twenty days, he becomes quite gentle. Fasting and torturing themselves have been practiced by people all over the world. Krishna's idea is that this is all nonsense. He says that the senses will for the moment recede from the man who tortures himself, but will emerge again with twenty times more [power]. ... What should you do? The idea is to be natural - no asceticism. Go on, work, only mind that you are not attached. The will can never be fixed strongly in the man who has not learnt and practiced the secret of non-attachment. — Swami Vivekananda

I'm pretty sure whoever said, people are wonderful spent very little time with people. — Dov Davidoff

He is invited to do great things who receives small things greatly. — Cassiodorus

Cats, I always think, only jump into your lap to check if you are cold enough, yet, to eat. — Anne Enright

All those who have insisted (and still do) that overeating and/or sedentary behavior must be the cause of obesity have done so on the basis of this same fundamental error: they will observe correctly that positive caloric balance must be associated with weight gain, but then they will assume without justification that positive caloric balance is the cause of weight gain. This simple misconception has led to a century of misguided obesity research. — Gary Taubes

A good idea has self-expanding qualities. It stimulates those who see it to add to it. — James Webb Young

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident. — Benjamin Disraeli