I work out on almost a daily basis wherever I am, but yoga brings into that equation something that is ideal for me to maintain a physical and emotional and mental kind of balance, and to stay healthy – I see it as a way of investing in my future.
I join all of you who are advocates telling others that they can improve their lives and the quality of their lives and others by taking a few moments, breathing, and allowing one’s whole being to become a vessel for positivity.
I think there are many experts who say, in fact, the most powerful nations on earth are more vulnerable today than the weaker nations because they’re the targets of so many of these groups that are trying to steal, to buy, to build nuclear weapons.
King Hussein never lost his faith, no matter how difficult and unbearable and cruel the circumstances could be. I always remember that. It helps me get through everything. It’s a way of trying to keep that positive spirit alive for as many people as we can touch. I think that’s good for the world.
I did feel a sense of duty. I felt that it could be a great asset to the future of Jordan, and those continuing the process of building the country, to concentrate on that humanitarian, peace-building legacy.
Gaining people’s trust might be harder than gaining all creation. But, what is harder than gaining people’s trust is having to abandon them.
We grow old more through indolence, than through age.
God has neither form nor shape under which we can know Him; when he speaks of Himself in metaphors and similes, He is adapting Himself to our foolishness, our limited capacity.
Ignorance is not innocence.
You should be more afraid of a stupid man than of an evil one.
As you know, no one over thirty years of age is afraid of tittle-tattle. I myself find it much less difficult to strangle a man than to fear him.
Life is too short to be able to love as one should.
It would not be difficult to be a better ruler than I was: for I admit that I ruled badly; and even if I was fortunate enough to satisfy my subjects, I was not fortunate enough to satisfy myself.
We read for instruction, for correction, and for consolation.
It is a far greater happiness to obey no one than to rule the whole world.
It is quite as ignominious to allow oneself to be deceived as to deceive.
I was born, have lived, and will die free.
There is a star above us which unites souls of the first order, though worlds and ages separate them.
Nuns and married women are equally unhappy, if in different ways.
I love men, not because they are men, but because they are not women.