Author: Yoga With Brian

Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people? -Eleanor Roosevelt

A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing, since adventurers come into it as well as go out, and the life in it grows strong, because it takes something from the world, and has something to give in return. -Sarah Orne Jewett

Life is short. Be swift to love! Make haste to be kind! -Henri Frederic Amiel

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth. -Leo Tolstoy

To have and not to give is often worse than to steal. -Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road. -William Least Heat-Moon

Read to children. Vote. And never buy anything from a man who’s selling fear. -Mary Doria Russell

The Supreme Ethical Rule: Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself. -Felix Adler

One of the primary tests of the mood of a society at any given time is whether its comfortable people tend to identify, psychologically, with the power and achievements of the very successful or with the needs and sufferings of the underprivileged. -Richard Hofstadter