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"That's the beauty of backbends. Emotionally we can never be disturbed, for the emotional centre becomes an extrovert. When you do Viparita Dandasana, your head looks backwards, but your conscious mind stretches everywhere. Study by observing how the mind gets regulated. You not only know the freedom in the spine, but also the freedom in the spirit."
"The deeper we look, the more we shall be convinced that the one thing wanting, which we must strive to acquire before all others, is strength strength physical, strength mental, strength moral, but above all strength spiritual which is the one inexhaustible and imperishable source of all the others. If we have strength everything else will be added to us easily and naturally."
"To look at a thing is very different from seeing it."
"I did have reconstructive plastic surgery and a tummy tuck. And from hip to hip, there's a very big scar. It looks better than it did... So I say, if you don't like that skin, have it removed. This is my advice: if you're gonna do it - just go for it."
"The moment you put someone on a pedestal they will look down upon you. The trick is respecting each other equally."
"In the moment when we are able to smile, to look at ourselves with compassion, our world begins to change."
"Many people look but they do not see."
"Poetry is not efficient. If you want to learn how to cook a lobster, it’s probably best not to look to poetry. But if you want to see the word lobster in all its reactant oddity, its pied beauty, as if for the first time, go to poetry. And if you want to know what it’s like to be that lobster in the pot, that’s in poetry too."
"The thing I like most about dogs is their absolute belief in their own innocence, even when they've been caught redhanded. No matter what they've been doing, every bad dog bears the same look when scolded: "What?""
"I never do enjoy my breaks, long or short...I look forward to them intensely, but as soon as they begin, I can feel them starting to end. I feel the temporariness of my freedom, and find it hard to concentrate on anything other than the sensation of it trickling away."
"There are secret passages all around you if you know where to look for them."
"Do not look back upon what has been done. Go Ahead."
"The strong look for more strength, the weak for excuses."
"It's not hard to make a space that looks good by itself. The trick is to craft a room that's even more attractive when it's occupied. That's when it becomes magical."
"I know faces, because I look through the fabric my own eye weaves, and behold the reality beneath."
"When you come slam bang up against trouble, it never looks half as bad if you face up to it."
"There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes."
"Look up at the stars, not down at your feet."
"Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you."
"And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says."
