Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar Quotes
The Yogi conquers the body by the practice of asanas, making the body a fit vehicle for the spirit. The Yogi knows that it is a necessary vehicle for the spirit, for a soul without a body is like a bird deprived of its power to fly.
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I've lost fights before where I'm landing more punches and I'm moving away from the guy. So, the way that they score things at the end doesn't seem very consistent to me.
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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It's always an honor to represent your country.
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May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.
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I think it's important that things are flawed.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.
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I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
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It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.
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When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.
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The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
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I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
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Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
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Bush boots being made by a bushman for bushmen.
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But the thing is that I’m in love with Rafael’s story. I think I understand when Adam says that all our stories are different but in some ways our stories are all the same. I never really got that. But when I start to read Rafael’s journal, it’s as if I can see myself. It’s better than a mirror.
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Sometimes I wonder what will be the air conditioning of my dying days. What thing will they add that will make it impossible to be uncomfortable? Because I do assume that as an old person, I will be very comfortable. There will be something - a drug or some way to impact the air around me - that when I relax, I'm gonna feel great. So I do look forward to that.
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Nuclear arms and atomic power represent a technology in which coexistence with man is extremely difficult.
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The whole world, from the least to the greatest, must know the truth, so that man may understand the great laws that govern his life. He must learn to control his own destiny, to heal his own body and bring happiness to his own soul.
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The Yogi conquers the body by the practice of asanas, making the body a fit vehicle for the spirit. The Yogi knows that it is a necessary vehicle for the spirit, for a soul without a body is like a bird deprived of its power to fly.
