Bet On It! Food For Thought - 42 - A Master

A Master In The Art Of Living Draws No Sharp Distinction Between Her Work & Her Play; Her Labor & Her Leisure; Her Mind & Her Body; Her Education & Her Recreation. She Hardly Knows Which Is Which. She Simply Pursues Her Vision Of Excellence Through Whatever She Is Doing, & Leaves Others To Determine If She Is Working Or Playing. To Herself, She Always Appears To Be Doing Both - Francois Rene De Chateaubriand

No One Is Born A Master. Each Must Learn Through Discipline The Mastery Of Self. You Decide Who You Are. Not Society!

I Am No Faint-Heart When It Comes To The Unpleasant Truth. Indeed I Have Always Taken A Bracing Sort Of Pleasure In Facing It - Jude Morgan

As Soon As We Abandon Our Own Reason & Are Content To Rely Upon Authority, There Is No End To Our Trouble - Bertrand Russell

Think Of It. We Are Blessed With Technology That Would Be Indescribable To Our Forefathers. We Have The Wherewithal, The Know-It-All To Feed Everybody, Clothe Everybody, & Give Every Human On Earth A Chance. We Know Now What We Could Never Have Known Before - That We Now Have The Option For All Humanity To Make It Successfully On This Planet In This Lifetime. Whether It Is To Be Utopia Or Oblivion Will Be A Touch-&-Go Relay Race Right Up To The Final Moment - Richard "Bucky" Buckminster Fuller

Dwell On The Beauty Of Life. Watch The Stars, & See Yourself Running With Them - Marcus Aurelius

Master The Art Of Self-Love & You Will Never Have To Seek Validation Ever Again - Anjum Choudhary

True Mastery & Self-Mastery Requires One To Be An Life-Long Student

If You Are Not Willing To Be A Fool, You Can't Become A Master - Jordan B. Peterson

Never Was Anything Great Achieved Without Danger - Niccolo Machiavelli

So Many People Live Within Unhappy Circumstances & Yet Will Not Take The Initiative To Change Their Situation Because They Are Conditioned To A Life Of Security, Conformity, & Conservatism, All Of Which May Appear To Give One Peace Of Mind, But In Reality Nothing Is More Dangerous To The Adventurous Spirit Within A Man Than A Secure Future. The Very Basic Core Of A Man’s Living Spirit Is His Passion For Adventure. The Joy Of Life Comes From Our Encounters With New Experiences, & Hence There Is No Greater Joy Than To Have An Endlessly Changing Horizon, For Each Day To Have A New & Different Sun - Jon Krakauer

Don't Bother Just To Be Better Than Your Contemporaries Or Predecessors. Try To Be Better Than Yourself - William Faulkner

I've Been Making A List Of The Things They Don't Teach You At School. They Don't Teach You How To Love Somebody. They Don't Teach You How To Be Famous. They Don't Teach You How To Be Rich Or How To Be Poor. They Don't Teach You How To Walk Away From Someone You Don't Love Any Longer. They Don't Teach You How To Know What's Going On In Someone Else's Mind. They Don't Teach You What To Say To Someone Who's Dying. They Don't Teach You Anything Worth Knowing - Neil Gaiman

To Master The Universe, Firstly Master Your Own Mind! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Nowhere Can Man Find A Quieter Or More Untroubled Retreat Than In His Own Soul - Marcus Aurelius

The Artist always has the masters in his eyes - Ralph Waldo Emerson
It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul - William Ernest Henley
Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise - Victor Hugo
I vowed to apply my own inventory of experiences to the solving of problems that affect everyone aboard planet Earth.

Take All That Money We Spent On Weapons & Defense Each Year & Instead Spend It Feeding, Clothing, & Educating The Poor Of The World, Which It Would Many Times Over, Not One Human Being Excluded, & WE CAN EXPLORE SPACE, TOGETHER, BOTH INNER & OUTER, Forever … In Peace - Bill Hicks
Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal - John F. Kennedy
The 1st step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the 2nd listening, the 3rd memory, the 4th practice, the 5th teaching others - Solomon Ibn Gabirol
My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe & denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests - George Santayana