Bet On It! Food For Thought - 38 - I Am More Me Than Ever

The Best & Most Beautiful Things In The World Cannot Be Seen Or Even Touched. They Must Be Felt With The Heart - Helen Keller

Everything Has Changed & Yet, I Am More Me Than I Have Ever Been. - Iain Thomas

Looking Back Over A Lifetime, You See That Love Was The Answer To Everything. - Ray Bradbury

Life Is Always About Risking Everything For A Dream No One Can See, Except You! The World Is Changed By Example. Not Your Opinion.

If We All Did The Things We Are Capable Of Doing We Would Literally Astound Ourselves.- Thomas A. Edison

Be Yourself Unapologetically. Be A Good Person. Be Giving. Be Sensitive. Be Humble. Listen. Be Generous. Assert Yourself, But With Humor.- Jon Batiste

That Which Does Not Kill Us Makes Us Stronger.- Friedrich Nietzsche

The Deeper We Look Into Nature, The More We Recognize That It Is Full Of Life, & The More Profoundly We Know That All Life Is A Secret & That We Are United With All Life That Is In Nature ... We Realize That All Life Is Valuable & That We Are United To All This Life. From This Knowledge Comes Our Spiritual Relationship With The Universe.- Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)

The Opposite Of Courage Is Not Cowardice, It Is Conformity.- Jim Hightower

I Was Never Aware Of Any Other Option But To Question Everything.- Noam Chomsky

I Saw That My Life Was A Vast Glowing Empty Page & I Could Do Anything I Wanted.- Jack Kerouac

Thousands Of Geniuses Live & Die Undiscovered - Either By Themselves Or By Others. Mark Twain

We Are All Worthy Of One Another.- Edward P. Jones

Change Is Inevitable, But Transformation Is By Conscious Choice.- Heather Ash Amara

Walk Outside On A Clear Night & Just Look Up Into The Sky. Take A Moment To Realize You Are Sitting On A Planet Spinning Around In The Absolute Middle Of Nowhere. Sometimes, It Takes A Bit Of Perspective To Remember What Is Really Important. You Are Alive & You Are Here. You Have The Potential To Be Anything. So Let Go Of What's Holding You Back & Dream, Believe, Breathe. - Michael Singer

When any one of us is aligned with our purpose, there is an inexhaustible source of energy. Once you're aligned with your purpose, the energy is always there to do whatever you need. You never get tired, & you do everything with a sense of joy. It's actually effortless - it's a flow. - Dennis Kucinich

Action & Reaction, Ebb & Flow, Trial & Error, Change - This Is The Rhythm Of Living. Out Of Our Over-Confidence, Fear; Out Of Our Fear, Clearer Vision, Fresh Hope. & Out Of Hope, Progress. Bruce Barton
Ordinary Riches Can Be Stolen; Real Riches Cannot. In Your Soul Are Infinitely Precious Things That Cannot Be Taken From You.
When our mind is calm, it reflects reality accurately, without distortion. Breathing, sitting, & walking with mindfulness calms disturbing mental formations such as anger, fear, & despair, allowing us to see reality more clearly. - Thich Nhat Hanh
HUMANS ARE SO STRANGE. We Can Climb Mountains. Explore Ocean Depths. Travel To Space. But We Can Move Past This Idea That We Require Political 'Overlords'. Idiots Who Only Demonstrate Their Self-Interest. Who Use Their Opinion & Tell Us What To Do. How To Live. As Though We Can't Do It For Ourselves.
The beauty of facing life unprepared is tremendous. Then life has a newness, a youth; then life has a flow & freshness. Then life has so many surprises. And when life has so many surprises, boredom never settles in you.- Rajneesh
Climb the mountains & get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, & the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.- John Muir
Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.- Paracelsus
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others & hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, & from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light & life no longer flow into our souls.- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.- Johnny Cash
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.- Jacob Bronowski
My favorite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence.- Arthur C. Clarke

Most civilization is based on cowardice. It's so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which would lead to bravery. You restrain the will. You regulate the appetites. You fence in the horizons. You make a law for every movement. You deny the existence of chaos. You teach even the children to breathe slowly. You tame.- Frank Herbert