“Always Follow Your Heart, Unless …”
“The deeper I go into myself the more I realize that I am my own enemy.” (Floriano Martins)
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“How much evil throughout history could have been avoided had people exercised their moral acuity with convictional courage and said to the powers that be, ‘No, I will not. This is wrong, and I don’t care if you fire me, shoot me, pass me over for promotion, or call my mother, I will not participate in this unsavory activity.’ Wouldn’t world history be rewritten if just a few people had actually acted like individual free agents rather than mindless lemmings?” (Joel Salatin, Everything I Want to Do is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front)
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“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” (Steve Jobs)
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“It doesn’t matter what other people think. The only opinion that really matters is yours. We are all the writers of our lives. We can make our stories comedies or tragedies. Tales of horror, or of inspiration. Your attitude and your fortitude and courage are what determine your destiny, Nick.… Life is hard and it sucks for all. Every person you meet is waging his or her own war against a callous universe that is plotting against them. And we are all battle-weary. But in the midst of our hell, there is always something we can hold on to, whether it’s a dream of the future or a memory of the past, or a warm hand that soothes us. We just have to take a moment during the fight to remember that we’re not alone, and that we’re not just fighting for ourselves. We’re fighting for the people we love.” [Acheron] (Sherrilyn Kenyon, Inferno)
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“The problem with hit radio.
When you only listen to the top 40, you’re letting the crowd decide what you hear.
And if you consume nothing but the most liked, the most upvoted, the most viral, the most popular, you’ve abdicated responsibility for your incoming. Most people only read bestselling books. That’s what makes them bestsellers, after all.
The web keeps pushing the top 40 on us. It defaults to ‘sort by popular,’ surfacing the hits, over and over.
Mass markets and math being what they are, it’s likely that many of the ideas and products you consume in your life are in fact, consumed because they’re the most popular. It takes a conscious effort to seek out the thing that’s a little less obvious, the choice that’s a little more risky.
Popular is not the same important, or often, not the same as good.” (Seth Godin, Seth’s Blog, 5.28.14)
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“Always follow your heart unless it’s been broken, then you must lead it. Back into love. Did you know that hearts are never too big to mend, too small to rebound, or too tired to love?” (signed) The Universe.” (Mike Dooley, Notes from The Universe, 5.22.14)
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