Author: Yoga With Brian

In our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the person with solid virtues who can be admired for something more substantial than his well-knownness often proves to be the unsung hero: the teacher, the nurse, the mother, the honest cop, the hard worker at lonely, underpaid, unglamorous, unpublicized jobs. -Daniel J Boorstin

If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing. -John Brunner

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all. -Ogden Nash

When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can’t eat money. -Alanis Obomsawin

The rightness of a thing isn’t determined by the amount of courage it takes. -Mary Renault

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion. -Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The only thing people regret is that they didn’t live boldly enough, that they didn’t invest enough heart, didn’t love enough. -Ted Hughes

Throw your dream into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, or a new country. -Anais Nin

Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than an exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise. -John Tukey

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart. -Iris Murdoch