Shota Rustaveli · 259 pages
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“Know that a rose without thorns has never been plucked”
― Shota Rustaveli, quote from The Knight in the Panther's Skin
“That which we give makes us richer, that which is hoarded is lost”
― Shota Rustaveli, quote from The Knight in the Panther's Skin
“Death finds his way unimpeded, be the path narrow or rocky”
― Shota Rustaveli, quote from The Knight in the Panther's Skin
“828"Heart, mind and thought depend one upon p. 133 another. When heart goes the others also go and follow it. A man deprived of heart cannot play the man; he is chased forth from men. Thou”
― Shota Rustaveli, quote from The Knight in the Panther's Skin
“სადა გინდ ვიყო, რა მგამა, ყოფამცა მქონდა ნებისა!”
― Shota Rustaveli, quote from The Knight in the Panther's Skin
“The heart cannot survive when you on it excessive joy bestow.”
― Shota Rustaveli, quote from The Knight in the Panther's Skin
“Consider your origin. You were not formed to live like brutes but to follow virtue and knowledge.”
― Dante Alighieri, quote from La Divina Comedia
“Focus is not achieved by staring hard at something. It is not trying to force focus, nor does it mean thinking hard about something. Natural focus occurs when the mind is interested. When this occurs, the mind is drawn irresistibly toward the object (or subject) of interest. It is effortless and relaxed, not tense and overly controlled.”
― W. Timothy Gallwey, quote from The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
“you have to keep upping the ante: run farther, run faster, run uphill. If you don’t keep pushing and pushing and pushing some more, the body will settle into homeostasis, albeit at a different level than before, and you will stop improving. This”
― K. Anders Ericsson, quote from Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
“He stared at her perplexed. “I certainly created you very dense, didn’t I?”
― Lucian Bane, quote from Seven Sons of Zion
“With the ascension of Charles I to the throne we come at last to the Central Period of English History (not to be confused with the Middle Ages, of course), consisting in the utterly memorable Struggle between the Cavaliers (Wrong but Wromantic) and the Roundheads (Right but Repulsive).”
― quote from 1066 and All That: A Memorable History of England
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