#practice

We've practiced loving long enough, let's come at last to hate. ↗

— Georg Herwegh

#enough #hate #last #long #loving

Yes, the more I go through life I realize that there's really no separation between practice and art at all. The two things more and more become one rather than two different aspects of my life. ↗

— Meredith Monk

#aspects #become #between #different #different aspects

I carefully lifted out of the pose and spoke up: "Uh, Fran? When I'm doing the pose (camel), I have this feeling in my chest, kind of a scary, tight feeling." Fran was adjusting someone across the room. She had a way of looking like a thoughtful seamstress when she made adjustments: an inch let out here, a seam straightened there, and everything would be just right. She might as well have had pins tucked between her lips and a tape measure around her neck. Without missing a beat or looking up she said, "Oh, that's fear. Try the pose again." Fear. I hadn't even known it was there. ↗

— Claire Dederer

#yoga #yoga-practice #life

Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbour; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#practice #love

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#means #new #new philosophy #old #philosophy

There are in this world human beings in solitary places who have answered the Lord's call to make of their lives a little flame, always bright, always attentive to His Presence. ↗

— Conrad De Meester

#practice-god-s-presence #inspirational

Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment. ↗

— Dogen Zenji

#attain #enlightenment #fences #plants #practice

Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice. ↗

— Will Harvey

#dead #just #practice #practicing #retiring

I practice on the roads of Gaza as we don't have good stadiums and tracks so I gave my best. ↗

— Nader al-Masri

#gave #gaza #good #i #practice

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#child #children #consider #deceiving #deception