food for thought

• Be truthful, gentle, and fearless.

  – Mahatma Gandhi
• A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts. We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us, like the grass which confesses the influence of the slightest dew that falls on it; and did not spend our time in atoning for the neglect of past opportunities, which we call doing our duty. We loiter in winter while it is already spring.

  – Henry David Thoreau

  Walden
• Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

  – Dolly Parton
• If you're out of touch with your body, you're out of touch with your heart and you can't know what you really want.

  – Jalen Séguin
• ‎You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

  – Plato
• It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

  – e.e. cummings
• When your whole organism is in harmony on all its levels, there is no conflict. The expression and radiance of that harmony is love. You become a channel of love, a manifestation of love.
  
  You feel completely yourself and not separate from anything. It is possible to be you, completely you and not separate from the other at the same time. This is the action of love. The action of love is to unite, to reveal the connectedness.
  
  A loving person doesn’t love you—a loving person is love. Love isn’t given. It overflows. It’s not even your love—it’s everyone’s love interacting. Love emanates from us like the scent from a rose.

  – A.H. Almaas
• Pretending to be someone you're not is a waste of the person you are.

  – Kurt Cobain
• Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.

  – Jean Piaget
• People who are able to determine what they really love have a huge advantage over everyone else. Pursuing that love or those interests enables them to create what they desire, instead of merely surviving with what they're given.

  – Melanie Barnum
• Questing… is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.

  – Joseph Campbell
• Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

  – Dr. Howard Thurman