Author: Yoga With Brian

It’s not about what people think. It’s about who you are.  – Cinda Williams Chima

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Life has no meaning a priori. … It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose. -Jean-Paul Sartre

I learned long ago that being Lewis Carroll was infinitely more exciting than being Alice. -Joyce Carol Oates

“When the student is ready the teacher will appear.” — Buddha

Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that. -Jean Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom. -Bob Dylan

Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising. There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the ‘Aha’. Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in — the one that we think is reality. -Alan Kay

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships. -Charles Simic

“It is among the most basic human truths: Every one of us, some day, will be brought to our knees. By a diagnosis we didn’t expect, a phone call we can’t imagine, or a loss we cannot endure.

“That common humanity inspires our mercy. It fortifies our compassion. It drives us to look out for the sick, the elderly, the poor, and the most vulnerable among us.

“Yesterday’s bill — yesterday’s devastating bill — does the opposite.
The bill is more than premiums and tax cuts. It is a cold and calculated world view: One that scapegoats the struggling, and sees fault in suffering. One dead set on dividing us based on who we love, where we come from, the direction of our faith and the size of our fortunes.

“We see it in their tax plan, their budget cuts, their immigration policy, their civil rights assaults — and yesterday, in their cruel health care plan.

“We must reject it.

“We must decide, instead, to take care of each other — because, but for the grace of God, we will all one day wake up in need of a little mercy.

“This nation’s character has never been defined by the power we give the already strong — but by the strength we give the weak.”

-Representative Joseph Kennedy III