"When we feel connected to the vastness of life and are confident of life's abundance, we are naturally generous and able to practice the third yama, non-stealing (asteya)."

-- Donna Farhi

#Practice Quotes #Vastness Quotes #Able Quotes

“The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.”
“That is why all great men are modest: they consistently measure themselves not in comparison to other people but to the idea of perfection ever present in their minds, an ideal infinitely clearer and greater than any common people have, and they also realize how far they are from fulfilling their ideal.”
“You don't get a lot of suicidal vampires.”
“It's always nice when the eccentrics show up.”
“Before the deed comes the thought. Before the achievement comes the dream. Every mountain we climb, we first climb in our mind.”
“We are given two of most of our body parts, either opposites or similarities, but not the tongue; except for my wife's which is forked.”
“I don't spend much time thinking about whether God exists. I don't consider that a relevant question. It's unanswerable and irrelevant to my life, so I put it in the category of things I can't worry about.”
“If the only way a library can offer an Internet exhibit about the New Deal is to hire a lawyer to clear the rights to every image and sound, then the copyright system is burdening creativity in a way that has never been seen before because there are no formalities.”

Source : "Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity". Book by Lawrence Lessig, 2004.

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