
Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 27
Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 27
“There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 36.
The Art of Peace (1992)
Context: Techniques employ four qualities that reflect the nature of our world. Depending on the circumstance, you should be: hard as a diamond, flexible as a willow, smooth-flowing like water, or as empty as space.
1 July 1748
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
Herbert N. Casson cited in: Forbes magazine (1950) The Forbes scrapbook of Thoughts on the business of life. p. 236
1950s and later
In "Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor: The Love Letters. How drinking cocooned them from pressure of fame. Without it, they couldn't even make love."
From then on, the stone came to be known as the 'Taylor-Burton diamond'