“If you live for a very long while, you will have to watch your friends and loved ones die, your body age and lose its beauty and vigor, and your mental capacities fade.” IfsInspirationalLongBodyAgeSufferingDiesLosesWatchesBuddhismCapacityYour BodyLoved OnesFadesVigor Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap
“When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in their intelligence. Theirs the diabolic vigor or the black magic of will power.” PeopleNeedsMindBodyActionBlackMagicMusclesSteelResortsWill PowerChastityVigorChasteBlack Magic Author:Honore de Balzac
“The only kind of sublimity which a painter or sculptor should aim at is to express by certain proportions and positions of limbs and features that strength and dignity of mind, and vigor and activity of body, which enables men to conceive and execute great actions.” MenShouldMindKindArtBodyActionCertainPositionActivityDignityAimPainterFeaturesProportionLimbsVigorSculptorsSublimity Author:Edmund Burke
“What sort of tree is there which will not, if neglected, grow crooked and unfruitful; what but Will, if rightly ordered, prove productive and bring its fruit to maturity? What strength of body is there which will not lose its vigor and fall to decay by laziness, nice usage, and debauchery?” IfsBodyFallCultureGrowsLosesNiceTreeProveFruitMaturityProductiveLazinessDecayNeglectedCrookedVigorUsageDebauchery Author:Plutarch