Asa Quotes

You are only as young as your spine is flexible.

We must all learn to hear what we do not like. The question is not, 'Is it pleasant?' but, 'Is it true?'

Wars cannot be won by destroying women and children

Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

We're not retreating, we're advancing in reverse.' --Skulduggery Pleasant

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

I never met a lasagna I didn't like

The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It's about using posture to understand and transform yourself.

To prepare for a race there is nothing better than a good pheasant, some champagne and a woman.

Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime.

I love you all, even those I don’t particularly like. That’s you, Beryl.

We set up the promised clinic for the sick and wounded Masai.

Give the peasants neither life nor death.

[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.

Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.

The conquest of space is worth the risk of life.

If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.

Toward the end of the Cold War, capitalism created a military horror: the neutron bomb, a weapon that destroys life while leaving buildings intact. During the Fourth World War, however, a new wonder has been discovered: the financial bomb. Unlike those dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this new bomb not only destroys the polis (here, the nation), imposing death, terror, and misery on those who live there, but also transforms its target into just another piece in the puzzle of economic globalization.

Garner up pleasant thoughts in your mind, for pleasant thoughts make pleasant lives.

What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so much as it's been memory. The memory of what happened at Hiroshima.

Live your life as if you are ready to say goodbye to it at any moment, as if the time left for you were some pleasant surprise.

Filling my mind with pleasant thoughts is the quickest road to health.

If the clinician, as observer, wishes to see things as they really are, he must make a tabula rasa of his mind and proceed without any preconceived notions whatever.

A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.

The asanas are useful maps to explore yourself, but they are not the territory.