Quotes I Like

It is through the technology of Yoga that we learn how to contain and liberate our energy and ultimately direct it toward a more positive way of being.
–Donna Farhi, “Bringing Yoga to Life”

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
–Marcus Annaeus Seneca, 4 BC - 65 AD, Roman philosopher and moralist

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
–Ralph Waldo Emerson

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
–Michael Pollan

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
–Krishnamurti

There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is a miracle.
–Albert Einstein

The caterpillar doesn’t know what a butterfly does. You can only project where you are going by what you know. But future possibility is way beyond what you can project. We don’t know where we are going–the possibilities are unlimited.
–Ganga White, White Lotus Foundation

Self, this is not about changing yourself, not self-improvement. Come to know and then begin to accept…let go.
–Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
–Robert Louis Stevenson

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
–Baruch Spinoza

I’m not a teacher: only a fellow-traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead — ahead of myself as well as you.
–George Bernard Shaw

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