Sumya Quotes & Sayings

By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Few people ... have had much training in listening. The training of most oververbalized professional intellectuals is in the opposite direction. Living in a competitive culture, most of us are most of the time chiefly concerned with getting our own views across, and we tend to find other people's speeches a tedious interruption of the flow of our own ideas. — S.I. Hayakawa

Smoking is a dying habit. — Virginia Bottomley

Food is the most primitive form of comfort. — Sheilah Graham Westbrook

I want to tell you something but good taste
Restrains me — Sappho Van Lesbos

I wouldn't be happy about being considered a love poet or an environmental - I don't want any of those tags. — W.S. Merwin

One's worth and self-regard ought to come from individual competitive performance, not from group identity. Pride based on clan or tribal connections is atavistic. It appeals to people who fear they cannot succeed as individuals, and by diverting their energies it all but ensures they will not succeed as individuals. — William A. Henry III

I took an improv class in 2005 in Chicago at ComedySportz, which was short-form, more of a games-based improv. I remember it being real fun and helping with my stand-up. If I did an improv class, and then I did stand-up later, I felt looser on stage and more comfortable. — Hannibal Buress

Shut the damned door. you're lettin' the flies out. — Sumner Wilson

He that hopes no good fears no ill. — Thomas Fuller

Retiring from the popular noise, I seek
This unfrequented place to find some ease. — John Milton