A Quote by Jan Morris

If I was an aspirant litterateur, I was also an aspirant anarchist. I have disliked Authority always, though sometimes seduced by its resplendence.

Jan Morris

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Jan Morris
English - Writer
Born: October 2, 1926

IMPOSTOR n. A rival aspirant to public honors.

Ambrose Bierce

I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.

Mahatma Gandhi

Pranayama teaches the aspirant to regulate his breathing and thereby control the mind.

B.K.S. Iyengar

The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.

Swami Sivananda

Through surrender the aspirant's ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.

B.K.S. Iyengar

I feel the political failings of the U.S.A. are presidential in length, but the aspirant narrative of the States is millennial in length.

Jim Crace

The ego will always be able to find ways to keep the aspirant busy in self-improvement, thus binding him or her to the fact that the self is still there behind all the improvements. For why should the ego kill itself?

Paul Brunton

The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.

H. L. Mencken

Anything that comes from the cow, a little milk, butter, cheese, is alright for the spiritual aspirant. There is no harm to the cow, and it is of benefit to take it.

Sathya Sai Baba

If a young aspirant had a modicum of skill and a busy typewriter she or he would sooner or later get a foothold in one of the magazines and a leaping start on the ladder upward.

James A. Michener

In art there are two principal schools between which each aspirant has to choose--one distinguished by its close adherence to nature, and the other by its strenuous efforts to get above it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

It is dangerous for a spiritual master to accept almost any aspirant. Although it is an aspect of mercy, it is dangerous. The danger also depends on the spiritual potency of the particular guru. Without sufficient potency, a few offensive or faithless disciples can lead to the guru's fall.

Bhakti Tirtha Swami

Each aspirant has to be a divine soldier. He must consciously and constantly use his divine energy to drill himself into a liberated soul.

Sri Chinmoy

It is on record that when a young aspirant asked Faraday the secret of his success as a scientific investigator, he replied, 'The secret is comprised in three words- Work, Finish, Publish.'

Michael Faraday

In childbirth, as in other human endeavors, fashions start with the rich, are then adopted by the aspirant middle class with an assist from the ever-watchful media, and may or may not eventually filter down to the poor.

Jessica Mitford

It is the dissenter, the theorist, the aspirant, who is quitting this ancient domain to embark on seas of adventure, who engages our interest. Omitting then for the present all notice of the stationary class, we shall find that the movement party divides itself into two classes, the actors, and the students.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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