Bet On It! Food For Thought - 54 - Extraordinary Claims

Beware The Irrational, However Seductive. Shun The 'Transcendent' & All Who Invite You To Subordinate Or Annihilate Yourself. Distrust Compassion; Prefer Dignity For Yourself & Others. Don't Be Afraid To Be Thought Arrogant Or Selfish. Picture All Experts As If They Were Mammals. Never Be A Spectator Of Unfairness Or Stupidity. Seek Out Argument & Disputation For Their Own Sake; The Grave Will Supply Plenty Of Time For Silence. Suspect Your Own Motives & All Excuses. Do Not Live For Others Any More Than You Would Expect Others To Live For You - Christopher Hitchens

My Wrinkles Are All From Laughter. Except Those Lines Between My Eyebrows. Those Are My "WTF?" Lines, & Those Things Run Deep.

I Said I Was Awesome! I Didn't Say I Had My Shit Together!

Where's Your Will To Be Weird?- Jim Morrison

I Really Don't Have A Plan. I Rely Solely On Caffeine & Weirdness To Get Me Through The Day!

Men Use Love To Get Sex. Woman Use Sex To Get Love. ME? I Use Coupons To Get Pizza.

We Fall In Love With The Most Unexpected Person At The Most Unexpected Time.

Human Salvation Lies In The Hands Of The Creatively Maladjusted - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Do You Know What We Call Opinion In The Absence Of Evidence? We Call It Prejudice - Michael Crichton

We Are An Impossibility In An Impossible Universe - Ray Bradbury

Physics Is Like Sex: Sure, It May Give Some Practical Results, But That's Not Why We Do It - Richard Feynman

You Are Capable Of More Than You Know. ALL WE HAVE IS NOW! THIS MOMENT! Life! You Bought A Ticket. You May As Well Enjoy The Ride!

Life Would Be Tragic If It Weren't Funny - Stephen Hawking

Whatever You Are Thinking. Think Bigger - Tony Hsieh

Pain Makes You Stronger. Fear Makes You Braver. Heartbreak Makes You Wiser.

Perhaps You're A Slave To Your Own Idea Of Yourself - D. H. Lawrence

We're So Quick To Cut Away Pieces Of Ourselves To Suit A Particular Relationship, A Job, A Circle Of Friends, Incessantly Editing Who We Are Until We Fit In - Charles de Lint

Be Daring, Be Different, Be Impractical, Be Anything That Will Assert Integrity Of Purpose & Imaginative Vision Against The Play-It-Safers, The Creatures Of The Commonplace, The Slaves Of The Ordinary - Cecil Beaton

Stop Looking Outside For Scraps Of Pleasure Or Fulfillment, For Validation, Security, Or Love -- You Have A Treasure Within That Is Infinitely Greater Than Anything The World Can Offer - Eckhart Tolle

The significance of our lives & our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom & courage. We are the custodians of life's meaning. We long for a Parent to care for us, to forgive us our errors, to save us from our childish mistakes. But knowledge is preferable to ignorance. Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal - Carl Sagan

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you ... I could walk through my garden forever - Alfred Tennyson

It Seems To Me, That The More Ignorant You Are, The Smarter You Think You Are, & The Smarter You Are, The More You Realize How Ignorant You Are - Dom Freeman

The Most Sacred Place In The World Is Your Mind. Guard It Ferociously - Rick Beneteau

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments & questions - as attempts to find out something. Success & failure are for him answers above all - Friedrich Nietzsche

Spirituality is recognizing & celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by a power greater than all of us, & that our connection to that power & to one another is grounded in love & compassion. Practicing spirituality brings a sense of perspective, meaning & purpose to our lives - Brene Brown

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - Carl Sagan

Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night - Sarah Williams

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, but concentrate the mind on the present moment -Buddhist Wisdom