I've never even been out of my BMI range. I'm 5-foot-3. If I gain five pounds, it shows.
All my first dates are interrupted by my fame because every picture taken is a fan that you can gain.
I don't think I gain anything by seeing myself.
I am pleased and reassured by the fact that a lot of younger playwrights seem to pay me some attention and gain some nourishment from what I do.
Experience is the main reason why we`re here, I think, in the world -- to gain experience. And from our experience we gain knowledge. . . and if we get any knowledge, then we gain liberation.
I have nothing to lose, but something to gain.
A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach in a day.
I didn't think I was fat. I just thought I didn't need to gain any weight. But I would drop weight and then I would be comfortable with that number. Then I would lose more weight and that would become my new number.
You can enter yoga, or the path of yoga, only when you are totally frustrated with your own mind as it is. If you are still hoping that you can gain something through your mind, yoga is not for you.
Facilitative attitudes (and skills) can help a therapist gain entry into the group Freedom from a desire to control the outcome, and respect for the capacity of the group, and skills in releasing individual expression Openness to all attitudes no matter how extreme or unrealistic they may seem Acceptance of the problems experienced by the group where they are clearly defined as issues Allowance of the freedom of choices in direction, either for the group or individuals particularly in the near future
It is necessary to gain the common people to our order. The best means to that end is influence in the schools.
What you gain here, you lose on the other side.
But in practice, if often comes down to not suffering a loss as big as the huge gain you made a while ago.
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason. He must be able to detect no inconsistencies in slavery; he must be made to feel that slavery is right; and he can be brought to that only when he ceased to be a man.
You can gain reconciliation from your enemies, but you can only gain peace from yourself.
Children who are decked with prince's robes and who have jeweled chains round their necks lose all pleasure in play; their dress hampers them at every step. In fear that it may be frayed, or stained with dust, they keep themselves from the world and are afraid ever to move. Mother, it is no gain, thy bondage of finery, if it keep one shut off from the healthful dust of the earth, if it rob one of the right of entrance to the great fair of common human life.
Think what you like. There are people who die by remaining alive and others who gain life by dying.
Gain is delusion; loss is enlightenment.
Dad was also a deeply, unabashedly religious man. . . , But he never made the fatal mistake of so many politicians - wearing his faith on his sleeve to gain political advantage.
As a vegan body-builder I want to show others that it is possible to gain significant muscle and strength on a vegan diet and I want to inspire others to follow this lifestyle. I love being vegan and knowing that I am having a positive impact on our society.