Bet On It! Food For Thought - 50 - An Artist, No Explanations

We Owe Nobody An Explanation Or An Accounting, As Long As Our Acts Do Not Hurt Or Infringe On Them. How Many Lives Have Been Ruined By This Need To "Explain," Which Usually Implies That The Explanation Be "Understood," i.e. Approved. Let Your Deeds Be Judged, & From Your Deeds, Your Real Intentions, But Know That A Free Person Owes An Explanation Only To Himself - To His Reason & His Conscience - & To The Few Who May Have A Justified Claim For Explanation - Erich Fromm
This Planet Needs A Revolution, But Not A Revolution Of Violence. We Need A Revolution In The Advancement Of Our Consciousness, & That Advancement Can't Take Place So Long As Continually We Pay Homage At The Alters Of The Accepted Perceptions Of Our Current Reality, Whether It Is Relying On Ancient Scriptures, Or Depending On Peer Accepted Authorities From Which We Must Qualify Any New Idea That Presents Itself To Our Consciousness. We Are Slaves To A System Of Cognition That Must Be Overturned If We Are Ever To Advance Our Cognitive Abilities & Mature As A Species - Endall Beall
Finding The Center Of Strength Within Ourselves Is In The Long Run The Best Contribution We Can Make To Our Fellow Men ... One Person With Indigenous Inner Strength Exercises A Great Calming Effect On Panic Among People Around Him. This Is What Our Society Needs - Not New Ideas & Inventions; Important As These Are, & Not Geniuses & Supermen, But Persons Who Can "Be", That Is, Persons Who Have A Center Of Strength Within Themselves - Rollo May
I Instinctively Knew That He Was Dangerous, In The Way That Intensely Alive People Sometimes Are - Cheryl Drake Harris
If I’ve Learned Anything From Facing Death, it Is That Life Is Not Meant To Be Survived. Life Is The Greatest Adventure There Is. And Why Stop Your Adventuring When Someone Says The End May Be Near? The Truth Is, We Never Know When The End Will Actually Come. None Of Us Will Avoid It Forever. What’s The Point In Trying? LIVE FEARLESSLY!- Edie Littlefield Sundby
A Guest Am I In This World Of Transient Things, Unfettered By The Entanglements Thereof. I Am Of No Country, No Boundaries Hold Me - Krishnamurti
Every Act Of Rebellion Expresses A Nostalgia For Innocence & An Appeal To The Essence Of Being - Albert Camus
That Which Can Be Asserted Without Evidence, Can Be Dismissed Without Evidence - Christopher Hitchens
For Someone Who Has Already Been Through Hell. Fear & Pain Are Not New. They've Survived Worse Than You. So Give It Your Best Shot
In Life, You Will Realize There Is A Role For Everyone You Meet. Some Will Test You. Some Will Use You. Some Will Love You. Some Will Teach You. The Best Of Them Will Bring Out The Best In You. They Are The Rare & Astonishing People Who Will Remind You, Of Your Worth!
If I Have Seen Further Than Others, It Is By Standing Upon The Shoulders Of Giants - Isaac Newton
It Doesn't Matter What People Think Of You. It's What & How You Think Of Yourself That Really Counts!
Peace On Earth & Good Coffee To Man. Don't Regret Telling More People To Fuck Off! Tell Someone Today! But Only Those Deserving.
Do Not Just Slay Your Demons, Dissect Them & Find Out What They Have Been Feeding On.
It's easy to attack me, I'm a right twerp, I'm a junkie & a cheeky monkey, I accept it, but that doesn't detract from the incontrovertible fact that we are living in a time of huge economic disparity & confronting ecological disaster - Russell Brand
Society Has Gotten To The Point Where Everybody Has A Right; But Nobody Has A Responsibility.
We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say "It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem." Then there are those who see the need & respond. I consider those people my heroes. - Fred Rogers
I am an artist. Driven by passion. Seized by obsession. Delighted by creation. Enthralled with expression. Entranced by vision. Diverted by daydreams. Struggles with emotions. Fueled by compulsion. Consumed with beauty & Blind sided by inspiration. Welcome to my mind.
Fiction is dangerous because it lets you into other people's heads. It shows you that the world doesn't have to be like the one you live in." At the first nationally recognized science fiction convention in China in 2007, Gaiman took a party official aside and said, "While not actually illegal, science fiction is regarded as dangerous and subversive in China. Why did you say yes to a science-fiction convention?"
The party official answered, "In China, we're really good at making things people bring to us, but we don't invent, we don't innovate." When Chinese party officials visited Google, Apple and Microsoft, they asked what the executives read as children. The official continued: "They all said, 'We read science fiction. The world doesn't have to be the way it is right now. We can change it.' " "That," said Gaiman, "is the big dangerous thing -Neil Gaiman