Kristelle Quotes & Sayings

The consequences of this affliction are physical neglect and an aversion to oiling and bathing the body and to other aspects of the daily regimen, when exactly the opposite should happen: purely mental suffering ought to be helped by physical fitness. Mental distress abates and subsides to a great extent when it is dispersed in physical calm, as waves subside in fair weather, but if as a result [B] of a bad regimen the body becomes sordid and foul and transmits to the mind nothing benign or beneficial, but only the harsh and unpleasant fumes of pain and distress, then even those who desire it find that recovery becomes hard to achieve. These are the kinds of disorders that take possession of the mind when it is treated so badly. — Plutarch

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it. — Jean Baudrillard

Mediocrity's like a spot on a shirt - it never comes off. — Haruki Murakami

The fork is the most powerful tool ever placed in our hands. — John Robbins

On the subject of spinach: divide into little piles. Rearrange again into new piles. After five of six maneuvers, sit back and say you are full. — Delia Ephron

In every forest, on every farm, in every orchard on earth, it's what's under the ground that creates what's above the ground. That's why placing your attention on the fruits that you have already grown is futile. You cannot change the fruits that are already hanging on the tree. You can, however, change tomorrow's fruits. But to do so, you will have to dig below the ground and strengthen the roots. — T. Harv Eker

You have to be a good team, but you have to be lucky and stay away from injuries. — Jaromir Jagr

The innocent one is he who does not explain, for whom life is both a mystery and a total light, one who does not complain ... For innocence admits of neither regret nor dispute. The innocent one assumes all responsibility. — Jean Giraudoux

Man must seek is Maker. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Whatsoever has form must be the result of combinations of particles and requires something else behind it to move it. — Swami Vivekananda

If the past sits in judgment on the present, the future will be lost. — Winston Churchill

Once a journey is designed, equipped, and put in process, a new factor enters and takes over. A trip, a safari, an exploration, is an entity, different from all other journeys. It has personality, temperament, individuality, uniqueness. A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us. Tour masters, schedules, reservations, brass-bound and inevitable, dash themselves to wreckage on the personality of the trip. Only when this is recognized can the blown-in-the glass bum relax and go along with it. Only then do the frustrations fall away. In this a journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. — John Steinbeck

Zaphod did not want to tangle with them and, deciding that just as discretion is the better part of valor, so was cowardice is the better part of discretion, he valiantly hid himself in a closet. — Douglas Adams

A lot of kids are moving to Baltimore, because we have a great music scene and we've got edge. Come on down, we've got scary edge. But great edge - it's still a city you can be a bohemian in. — John Waters

You know you can be as sweet as you want, or as tough as you want, or both at the same time. — Art Hochberg