As your training progresses, always remember that the key to gaining the ability for spontaneous and creative technique lies in good ukemi.
The light that lies In woman's eyes.
Real suffering bravely borne, melts even a heart of stone. Such is the potency of suffering. And there lies the key to Satyagraha.
I'm interested in such things as the difference between how we perceive the world and what the world turns out to be. The difference is between the stories we tell others and the stories we tell ourselves. There is a wonderful Russian saying, which I use as the epigraph of one of my novels, which goes, He lies like an eyewitness. Which is very sly, clever and true.
True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.
After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the madness of creation, unbearable solitude and the exhausting crowd, rejection and consent.
Passion lies between one mark and the next, and also within all of them.
When men and women punish each other for truth telling, we reinforce the notion that lies are better.
As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things.
Thus, that one can find no place to walk through the breadth of the earth is not because the earth is not tranquil but because the danger to every step of the traveler lies generally with words.
There is no holier spot of ground than where defeated valor lies by mourning beauty crowned
The answer doesn't lie in learning how to protect ourselves from life-it lies in learning how to become strong enough to let a bit more of it in.
You deliver a message every time you speak. Do you deliver the truth, or do you deliver lies? When the message you deliver comes from truth and love, you are happier.
In talking about a genius, you would not say that he lies; he sees realities with different eyes from ours.
The lies are in the dialogue, the truth is in the visuals.
The highest nobility lies in taming your own mind.
The news lies all the time. They tell us what they think we would want to hear.
The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
The best lies about me are the ones I told.
On the question of the world as a whole, science founders. For scientific knowledge the world lies in fragments, the more so the more precise our scientific knowledge becomes.
