Author: Yoga With Brian

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus. -Alexander Graham Bell

I do not want art for a few, any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few. -William Morris

The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people. -Vincent Van Gogh

If only I could so live and so serve the world that after me there should never again be birds in cages. -Isak Dinesen

Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don’t want it. What seems conceit, bad manners, or cynicism is always a sign of things no ears have heard, no eyes have seen. You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone. -Miller Williams

But at my back I always hear / Time’s winged chariot hurrying near; / And yonder all before us lie / Deserts of vast eternity. -Andrew Marvell

You can sometimes count every orange on a tree but never all the trees in a single orange. -A.K. Ramanujan

We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of idle chatter we preserve Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Norse: we carry a museum inside our heads, each day we commemorate peoples of whom we have never heard. -Penelope Lively

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” -Isaac Asimov

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not. -Dr. Seuss