Materialization

The passage of life is a process of materializing one’s own worth using the raw materials of the Earth and the mind.

AJS

Science

“Science isn’t a company. It’s not a country. It’s not even an idea. It’s a process. It’s a process, and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t.” -Michael Specter: The Danger of Science Denial

The Reasoning Mind

From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man – the function of his reasoning mind.
-Ayn Rand

Thoughts. Words. Action.

Let your thoughts be positive,
For they will become your words.

Let your words be positive,
For they will become your actions.

Let your actions be positive,
For they will become your values.

Let your values be positive,
For they will become your destiny.

Mahatma Gandhi

Purpose

The interplay between knowledge and action is by far the most beautiful and powerful facet of mankind’s ability for progress.

AJS

Tragedy

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
-Robert Kennedy

Clarity

It is in my belief that the art of foretelling the future rests in the clarity with which we read the present moment. If this is true, the present may in fact be the long-sought window into the future.

Powerful beyond measure.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? … And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Marianne Williamson

Power for freedom

There’s a difference between us. You think the people of this country exist to provide you with position. I think your position exists to provide those people with freedom. And I go to make sure that they have it.
-William Wallace, in Braveheart (1995) (via sankit)

Clean mind

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
Mahatma Gandhi (via kari-shma)