I am conscious of how my body signifies in every space. In every place of the world our body has a different significance.
No one should voluntarily remain in an environment which prevents his development.
Anybody can work when everything goes smoothly, when there is nothing to trouble him; but a man must be made of the right kind of stuff who can rise above the things which harass and handicap the weak, and do his work in spite of them. Indeed, this is the test of greatness.
When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success.
Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man's being.
The best books are those which lift us to a higher plane where we breathe a purer atmosphere.
If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself.
You just sit home and masturbate. The phone is going to ring soon, but you just can't wait.
Physical beauty is passing - a transitory possession - but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart - I have all these things - aren't taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
But the thought arrived inside her like a train: Marya Morevna, all in black, here and now, was a point at which all the women she had been met—the Yaichkan and the Leningrader and the chyerti maiden; the girl who saw the birds, and the girl who never did—the woman she was and the woman she might have been and the woman she would always be, forever intersecting and colliding, a thousand birds falling from a thousand oaks, over and over.
There is a desire deep within the soul which drives man from the seen to the unseen, to philosophy and to the divine.