Bet On It! Food For Thought - 57 - With All Your Might

LET US All NOW PRAISE BAD ASS WOMEN! EVERYWHERE! Within Every Woman Is The Wisdom Needed To Change The World!

Even In Its Darkest Passages, The Heart Is Unconquerable. It Is Important That The Body Survives, But It Is More Meaningful That The Human Spirit Prevails - Dave Pelzer

I Die, As I Have Lived, A Free Spirit, An Anarchist, Owing No Allegiance To Rulers, Heavenly Or Earthly - Voltairine de Cleyre

You Can Watch Me. Mock Me. Block Me. Or Join Me. But What You Can't Do Is Stop Me!!!!! COURAGE IS A LOVE AFFAIR WITH THE UNKNOWN!

Find The Thing You Want To Do Most Intensely, Make Sure That’s It, & Do It With All Your Might. If You Live, Well & Good. If You Die, Well & Good. Your Purpose Is Done - H.G. Wells

If You Were All Alone In The Universe With No One To Talk To, No One With Which To Share The Beauty Of The Stars, To Laugh With, To Touch, What Would Be Your Purpose In Life? It Is Other Life; It Is Love, Which Gives Your Life Meaning. This Is Harmony. We Must Discover The Joy Of Each Other, The Joy Of Challenge, The Joy Of Growth - Mitsugi Saotome

One's Dignity May Be Assaulted, Vandalized & Cruelly Mocked, But It Can Never Be Taken Away Unless It Is Surrendered - Michael J. Fox

The Purpose Of Life Is A Life Of Purpose - Robert Bryne

You Cannot Buy The Revolution. You Cannot Make The Revolution. You Can Only Be The Revolution. It Is In Your Spirit, Or It Is Nowhere - Ursula K. Le Guin

There Is Some Good In This World, & It's Worth Fighting For - J.R.R. Tolkien

When You Read A Line That Was So Well-Written, You Just Close The Book & Stare At The Wall For A Few Moments ...

The Art Of Meditation Is Neither Mindless Drifting On The One Hand Nor Fearful Clinging To The Past On The Other. It Consists In Being Sensitive To Each Moment, In Regarding It As Utterly New & Unique, In Having The Mind Open & Wholly Receptive - Alan Watts

It Is Easy To Criticize & Break Down The Spirit Of Others ... But To Know Yourself Takes Maybe A Lifetime - Bruce Lee

When A Person Can't Find A Deep Sense Of Meaning, They Distract Themselves With Pleasure - Viktor Frankl

Some People Confuse Crazy & Passionate. Let Me Be Clear. I Am Bat-Shit ... Passionate & Intense.

Meditation, The Struggle To Quiet The Savage Beast That Is The Mind! All The Answers We Seek; Never Arrive When The Mind Is Busy. They Present Themselves When The Mind Is Still.

Great minds have purpose, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed & subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them - Washington Irving

But often, in the world’s most crowded streets. But often, in the din of strife, There rises an unspeakable desire, After the knowledge of our buried life; A thirst to spend our fire & restless force. In tracking out our true, original course; A longing to inquire. Into the mystery of this heart which beats. So wild, so deep in us - to know. Whence our lives come & where they go - Matthew Arnold

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me - Jane Austen

Our culture has accepted 2 huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone’s lifestyle, you must fear or hate them. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything they believe, say, or do. Both are nonsense. You don’t have to compromise convictions to be compassionate - Dave Chappelle

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity - Coco Chanel

Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light & shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (& theft) will be authentic - Jim Jarmusch

We are constantly invited to be who we are - Henry David Thoreau

The most common form of despair is not being who you are - Soren Kierkegaard

What if we choose not to do the things we are supposed to do? The principal gain is a sense of an authentic act - & an authentic life. It may be a short one, but it is an authentic one, & that's a lot better than those short lives full of boredom. The principal loss is security. Another is respect from the community. But you gain the respect of another community, the one that is worth having the respect of - Joseph Campbell

Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose - Leonardo da Vinci

I realized then that even though I was a tiny speck in an infinite cosmos, a blip on the timeline of eternity, I was not without purpose - R.J. Anderson

In The Age Of Constant Movement, Nothing Is So Urgent As Sitting Still - Pico Iyer