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“You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action.”

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William Bolitho (1890-1930) was an English author known for his historical novels. His works are typically set against the backdrop of 19th-century British society, offering deep insights into the era's history and culture. more

“It is rewarding to find someone you like, but it is essential to like yourself. It is quickening to recognize that someone is a good and decent human being, but it is indispensable to view yourself as acceptable. It is a delight to discover people who are worthy of respect and admiration and love, but it is vital to believe yourself deserving of these things.”

Source: Advice from a Failure

“Be yourself. If you water yourself down to please people or to fit in or to not offend anyone, you lose the power, the passion, the freedom and the joy of being uniquely you. It's much easier to love yourself when you are being yourself.”

People Ifs Joy Passion Water Loses Love You Self Esteem Fit Easier Please Self Worth Esteem Being Yourself Love Yourself

Author:Don Coppersmith

“Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.”

Wells Important Self Self Esteem Essentials Tables Mental Health Legs Mental Illness Esteem Well Being Great Self Esteem

Author:Louise Hart

“Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.”

Law Courage Morality Accomplished

Author:Baron de Montesquieu

“What is your real work? Is it that which pays the bills or is it your art? I think your real work is healing. Whatever helps you become more loving in this lifetime. Whatever helps you forgive yourself, embrace yourself, meet yourself, and free yourself in this lifetime.”

Thinking Art Real Helping Inspiring Pay Healing Bills Embrace Forgiving Lifetime Forgive Yourself Real Work Free Yourself Embrace Yourself

Author:Tama J. Kieves

“Dancing serves no necessary use, no profitable, laudable, or pious end at all. It is only from the inbred pravity, vanity, wantonness, incontinency, pride, profaneness, or madness of man's depraved nature.”

Men Ends Use Pride Madness Dancing Dance Vanity Profitable Pious Depraved Inbreds Necessary Use

Author:William Prynne

“The way to heaven is too steep, too narrow for men to dance in and keep revel rout. No way is large or smooth enough for capering rousters, for jumping, skipping, dancing dames but that broad, beaten, pleasant road that leads to hell. The gate of heaven is too narrow for whole rounds, whole troops of dancers to march in together.”

Men Way Enough Whole Together Heaven Hell Dancing Dance Rounds Pleasant Dancer March Gates Broads Troops Smooth Beaten Jumping Steep Dames Gates Of Heaven

Author:William Prynne

“Yoga does not remove us from the reality or responsibilities of everyday life but rather places our feet firmly and resolutely in the practical ground of experience. We don't transcend our lives; we return to the life we left behind in the hopes of something better.”

“What yoga philosophy and all the great Buddhist teachings tells us is that solidity is a creation of the ordinary mind and that there never was anything permanent to begin with that we could hold on to. Life would be much easier and substantially less painful if we lived with the knowledge of impermanence as the only constant.”

Ifs Mind Philosophy Would Be Success Teaching Creation Easier Ordinary Yoga Constant Painful Buddhist Permanent Impermanence Solidity

Book:Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit: A Return to Wholeness

Source: Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit: A Return to Wholeness

Quote by William Bolitho

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