Personal health is related to self-control and to the worship of life in all its natural beauty - self-control bringing with it happiness, renewed youth, and long life.


Maria Montessori

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I am very happy
Because I have conquered myself
And not the world.
I am very happy SRI CHINMOY
Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.
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I suppose I could admire all these slow Seattle drivers for their safety-mindedness, consideration f...
MARIA SEMPLE
I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not the devil eith...
MARIA CALLAS
I have hardly detained the reader long enough on the subject, to give him a just impression of the s...
MARIA MONK
I keep an elaborate calendar for my characters detailing on which dates everything happens. I'm ...
MARIA SEMPLE
The day on which I received confirmation was a distressing one to me.
MARIA MONK
I think everybody has tragedy in their life. Everybody has hurdles in their life. Everybody has toug...
MARIA SHRIVER
I do remember when it occurred to me the first time, when I got the idea of painting the way I feel ...
MARIA LASSNIG
I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort,...
MARIA MITCHELL
If you or me go to the gas station to fill up our car and it costs us much more than we expected, it...
MARIA BARTIROMO
As a general rule, people disappoint you as you know them.
MARIA MITCHELL
I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjo...
MARIA MITCHELL
My dad has some depressive issues, and he's really tough on himself. So sometimes he can say thi...
MARIA BAMFORD
Don't ever, ever, believe anyone who tells you that you can just get by, by doing the easiest th...
MARIA BARTIROMO
The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study.
MARIA MITCHELL
If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.
MARIA EDGEWORTH
An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in m...
MARIA CALLAS
"Niagara! wonder of this western world, And half the world beside! hail, beauteous queen Of ...
MARIA BROOKS
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
MARIA SCHELL
My biggest dream since I was a kid was to be the woman sneaking on the pirate ship dressed like a ma...
MARIA BELLO
Fragrant o'er all the western groves The tall magnolia towers unshaded.
MARIA BROOKS
I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down.
MARIA CALLAS
I would like to be Maria, but there is La Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity.
MARIA CALLAS
I only have nightmares because my dreams have come true.
MARIA BARRAGAN
My future is just a mirage. The more I expect from it, it just turns out to be mere reflections.
MARIA K
I would never want to model as my career, but fashion is my hobby. When you love what you're wea...
MARIA VALVERDE
My mom always does this thing where, the closer I get to home, the more she calls. 'Hey, listen,...
MARIA BAMFORD
Women somehow get portrayed as one type. You're either a feminist or you're not. You're ...
MARIA SHRIVER
I'm not an extroverted person, nor am I hyper-confident in my point of view. I just don't ha...
MARIA BAMFORD
I think the issue is that Americans traveling abroad if gotten into legal problems should have acces...
MARIA CANTWELL
The United States and the European Union do want to have a rule of law, and that rule of law should ...
MARIA CANTWELL
You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a...
MARIA CALLAS
While it's wonderful that investors have access to all the data now available to them, it has be...
MARIA BARTIROMO
It's unhealthy to live a life with regrets.
MARIA BARRAGAN
When you're an immigrant, you just want a paycheck.
MARIA MARTINEZ
I don't need many things. I don't need glamour and attention to be happy. I'm very happy...
MARIA SHARAPOVA
I love festivals because they seem like more of an artsy, supportive attitude - which benefits a mor...
MARIA BAMFORD
In TV writing, I felt like Gulliver being tied down by the Lilliputians. There's so much more fr...
MARIA SEMPLE
The language of the ordinance implies that we're in the business of prostitution rather than massage...
MARIA ROSSI
I like to make jokes; I consider myself a funny person. I just think making jokes about people who a...
MARIA SHRIVER