Bet On It! Food For Thought - 55 - Badges Of Honor, Courage

My Whole Religion Is This: Do Every Duty & Expect No Reward For It, Either Here Or Hereafter - Bertrand Russell

This Is Your Life ... Your Story ... Your Book. Don't Let Anyone Else Write It & Never Apologize For Your Edits.

Maybe Life Isn't About Avoiding The Bruises. Maybe It's About Collecting Scars. Badges Of Honor, Courage. As Proof You Were Here.

Passion Is The Fire That Can Burn Through Fear - Sharon Weil

Courage To Me Is Doing Something Daring, No Matter How Afraid, Insecure, Intimidated, Alone, Unworthy, Incapable, Ridiculed Or Whatever Other Paralyzing Emotion You Might Feel. Courage Is Taking Action ... No Matter What. So You're Afraid? Be Afraid. Be Scared Silly To The Point You're Trembling & Nauseous, But Do It Anyway! - Richelle E. Goodrich

Don't Seek A Failure-Less Life. Wear Failure As A Badge Of Honor. Seek A Fearless Life! - Manoj Arora

Rise Above The Limitations Of Conceptual Thinking. If You Can. You Will Feel Deeply The Direct Experience of Reality.

Run From What's Comfortable. Forget Safety. Live Where You Fear To Live. Destroy Your Reputation. Be Notorious - Rumi

Being Taught To Avoid Talking About Politics & Religion Has Led To A Lack Of Understanding Of Politics & Religion. What We Should Have Been Taught Was How To Have A Civil Discourse, A Civil Conversation About Difficult Subjects.

Wear Your Tragedies As Armor, Not Shackles! Stay Calm & Be Groovy! Fear Is A Liar!

Don't Make Excuses For Nasty People ... You Can't Put A Flower In An Asshole & Call It A Vase.

Education Is The Most Powerful Weapon We Can Use To Change The World - Nelson Mandela

I Tread Paths By Moonlight What Others Fear To Speak Of During The Day - Patrick Rothfuss

Fear & Paranoia Create Many Of Our Worldly Struggles. We Get Something In Our Minds & Our Distorted Perception Sculpts The Reality Of What We See. Even Though What We See Isn’t Really There, We Tend To Act As If It Is. We Then Begin To Put People & Things Into Boxes, Labeling Them & Limiting Them Due To Our Fears - Alaric Hutchinson

Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies. And the fact that men accept this, that the people’s anger has not destroyed these hollow clowns, strikes me as proof that men attribute no importance to the way they are governed; that they gamble - yes, gamble - with a whole part of their life & their so called 'vital interests - Albert Camus

You Must Stop Letting Other Flawed Human Beings Convince You That You Are Not Worthy. That's Bullshit. Fuck Them. Tell Them I Said So!

You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world & a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck & drag him a quarter of a million miles out & say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch - Dr. Edgar D. Mitchell

No One Is More Dangerously Insane Then The One Who Is Sane All The Time: He Is Like A Steel Bridge Without Flexibility & The Order Of His Life Is Rigid & Brittle - Alan Watts

The most important lesson life has taught me: Nothing can kill us other than death itself. So, be fearless, take chances, step out of your comfort zone, spread your wings & soar high. Live while you are alive - Asma Naqi

Either you can be a man of faith or you are going to be a rebellious spirit.

I gaze forward without fear - Alexander Pushkin

In my Art, I have but one fear: that we will fail to be fearless - Clive Barker

Explore, Experience, Then Push Beyond - Aaron Lauritsen

Let us accept the invitation, ever-open, from the Stillness, taste its exquisite sweetness, & heed its silent instruction - Paul Brunton

None of us are just black or white, or never wrong & always right. No one. No one exists without polarities. Everybody has good & bad forces working with them, against them & within them - Suzy Kessam

Don't just teach your children to read. Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything. - George Carlin

Much of spiritual practice is just this: cutting away what must be cut & letting remain what must remain. Knowing what to cut - this is wisdom. Being clear & strong enough to make the cut when it is time for things to go - this is courage. Together, the practices of wisdom & courage enable us, day by day & task by task, to gradually simplify our life -Wayne Muller