Author: Yoga With Brian

Society is like a lawn, where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface; he, however, who would study nature in its wildness and variety, must plunge into the forest, must explore the glen, must stem the torrent, and dare the precipice. -Washington Irving

The cure for anything is salt water — sweat, tears, or the sea. -Isak Dinesen

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow. -Friedrich Nietzsche

Every increased possession loads us with new weariness. -John Ruskin

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice that produces beggars needs restructuring. -Martin Luther King, Jr.

People change and forget to tell each other. -Lillian Hellman

We should tackle reality in a slightly jokey way, otherwise we miss its point. -Lawrence Durrell

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness. -Leo Tolstoy

Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.  -Eleanor Roosevelt (American United Nations Diplomat, Humanitarian, and First Lady)