Wassyla Tamzali Quotes & Sayings

Jack furiously chopped vegetables. Captain Dependable! Wait, we vetoed that one. The Divine Door Maker? Too much? Hmm ... Handsome Hero, but maybe I should move away from alliteration. Something sleek. Our Lord and Master Jack. — Kiersten White

A sutra is, so to speak, the bare thread of an exposition, the absolute minimum that is necessary to hold it together, unadorned by a single "bead" of elaboration. Only essential words are used. Often, there is no complete sentence-structure. There was a good reason for this method. Sutras were composed at a period when there were no books. The entire work had to be memorized, and so it had to be expressed as tersely as possible. Patanjali's Sutras, like all others, were intended to be expanded and explained. The ancient teachers would repeat an aphorism by heart and then proceed to amplify it with their own comments, for the benefit of their pupils. In some instances these comments, also, were memorized, transcribed at a later date, and thus preserved for us. — Swami Prabhavananda

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not on our circumstances. — Martha Washington

True beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame
But borrowed thence to light us thither.
Beauty and beauteous words should go together. — George Herbert

Don't ever forget the words on a postcard that my father sent me last year: If you win the rat race, you're still a rat. — Anna Quindlen

If one intends to make beer from oats, it is prepared with hops. — Hildegard Of Bingen

There is no beast without cruelty — Friedrich Nietzsche