Pradipika Quotes & Sayings

Europe needs an engine, and the Franco-German motor has provided that when the two nations have converged on important topics during critical periods. But that partnership shouldn't be a directorate for other EU members. — Francois Hollande

I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist. — LeRoy Neiman

If our focus is whether our wants are met, it is almost impossible to remain thankful. Let's be thankful that our needs have been met! — Assegid Habtewold

OVER THE last half millennium, one book has established itself as the classic work on Hatha Yoga - the book you are holding in your hands. An Indian yogi named Svatmarama wrote the Hatha Yoga Pradipika in the fifteenth century C.E. Next to nothing is known about him, although his name may provide a clue. It means "one who delights in one's Atman," indicating the achievement of a state of bliss. Drawing on his own experience and older works now lost, he wrote this book for the student of Yoga. He wrote this book for you. — Yogi Swatmarama

Jamie, when the stakes are high, I never cheat. I consider myself too important to do that. — E.L. Konigsburg

Everything that can be tested must be tested, — Malcolm Gladwell

The world of men harbours a morbid condition of overfondness for themselves — Jean Sasson

For obvious reasons, the relationship between novelists, the reviewing establishment and critics in general is chronically, and often acutely, edgy. A kind of low-intensity warfare prevails, with outbreaks of savagery. It is partly an ownership issue. Who, other than its creator, is to say what a work of fiction means or is worth? It can take years to write a novel and only a few hours for a critic, or a reviewer rushing for a tight deadline, to trash it. — John Sutherland

You know the classification of cultures into 'Apollonian' and 'Dionysian. — Robert A. Heinlein

I used to hate everybody," I say. "Until I met you. — Colleen Hoover

The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly canvassed by any person. — Charles Babbage

It's uncomfortable, definitely, but it's also really, really great to talk drums with kids and hear them get excited about music and talk about listening to the drums. — Patty Schemel

Shawn Michaels is quite simply the greatest performer in WWE history. — Chris Jericho

But Alma thought it would kill her, this profundity of sorrow. She could not sound out the bottom of it. She had been sinking into it for a year and a half, and feared she would sink forevermore. She cried herself out on Hanneke's neck, sobbing forth the harvest of her long-darkened spirits. She must have poured a tankard of tears down Hanneke's bosom, but Hanneke did not move or speak, except to repeat, There, there, child. It will not kill you. — Elizabeth Gilbert

The desire for money may be an indication of greed, but I want to argue that greed is a much more subtle vice than simply the desire to be rich. — Stanley Hauerwas