Yamas Niyamas Quotes & Sayings

A favored bit from "A Legend of Good Men"

"My mother and I each had our routines. She taught high school, took long hikes in the state parks near our house, read mystery novels, and sometimes disappeared with explanations as thin as, "I just need a few days," or "I'm going to visit a friend."
"Which friend?" I would ask.
"That's right," she would say. — David Vann

The kitchen guy wheeled out the tray of lunches. The salmon looked too fancy for institutional food, more at par with something Jacob would have cooked up at home as a way of saying, I'm sorry I stood you up at that party where all my friends were flexing so hard you could barely fit in the room with their delts. — Jordan Castillo Price

Roses do not bloom to earn praise,
but do so to decorate the universe. — Matshona Dhliwayo

A love affair based on jealousy is doomed from the start ... It is certanly a sign of love, but it's a sign that it's already dying. — Francoise Sagan

Fairness is not something to which we are entitled. Rather, it is something for which we hope. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

It's not what you do that makes who you are; it's what you eat. — Charlotte Ellis