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Inspirational Quotations #457

January 6, 2013 By Nagesh Belludi Leave a Comment

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
—Leonardo da Vinci (Italian Polymath)

Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man’s life.
—Vita Sackville-West (English Gardener)

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.
—Isaac Asimov (Russian-born American Children’s Books Writer)

The word mantra comes from two Sanskrit words man, (“to think”) and tra (“tool”). So the literal translation is “a tool of thought”. And that’s how mantras are used in Buddhist and Hindu practices, as tools that clear your mind of distractions. Because when you focus on repeating that mantra over and over again, soon the noise will die down and all you will hear is your inner voice.
—Russell Simmons (American Entrepreneur)

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
—W. Somerset Maugham (French Playwright)

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.
—Albert Einstein (German-born Theoretical Physicist)

Things do change. The only question is that since things are deteriorating so quickly, will society and man’s habits change quickly enough?
—Isaac Asimov (Russian-born American Children’s Books Writer)

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