The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings
Dance is the fastest, most direct route to the truth.
To sweat is to pray, to make an offering of your innermost self. Sweat is holy water, prayer beads, pearls of liquid that release your past. Sweat is an ancient and universal form of self healing, whether done in the gym, the sauna, or the sweat lodge. I do it on the dance floor. The more you dance, the more you sweat. The more you sweat, the more you pray. The more you pray, the closer you come to ecstasy.
Do you have the discipline to be a free spirit?
A lot of women seem to think the way to ingratiate themselves is to put down other women or backstab.
Look, my best friend is Xena, Warrior Princess and she is not going to like this forced wedding thing, if you get my drift.
You have to develop a very thick skin.
There's something about compassion that causes society to say, 'We're going to take this person seriously. ' Take Mother Teresa. She was confrontational on abortion, but she wasn't rejected by society.
You've got to stay ready, especially around here. That's what we preach, you'll get your opportunity whether it comes at the beginning or in the middle or in the end whenever it may be. When your time comes, you need to be ready to go because you're going to earn your minutes
This doctrine ['that the condition of man cannot be ameliorated, that what has been must ever be, and that to secure ourselves where we are we must tread with awful reverence in the footsteps of our fathers']is the genuine fruit of the alliance between Church and State, the tenants of which finding themselves but too well in their present condition, oppose all advances which might unmask their usurpations and monopolies of honors, wealth and power, and fear every change as endangering the comforts they now hold.
You can insist on a different end to the story.