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No matter how old you are now. You are never 2 young or 2 old for success or going after what you want. Here’s a short list of people who accomplished & (against the odds) great things at different ages… 1) Helen Keller At the age of 19 months Helen became deaf & blind. But that didn’t stop her.She was the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree 2) Mozart was already competent on keyboard & violin, he composed from the age of 5 3) Shirley Temple was 6 when she became a movie star on “Bright Eyes” 4) Anne Frank was 12 when she wrote the diary of Anne Frank 5) Magnus Carlsen became a chess Grandmaster at the age of 13 years 6) Nadia Comăneci At age 14, gymnast of Romania scored seven perfect 10.0 and won three gold medals at the Olympics 7) Tenzin Gyatso was formally recognized as the 14th Dalai Lama November 1950, at the age of 15 8) Pele soccer superstar was 17 years old when he won the world cup in 1958 with Brazil 9) Elvis was a Superstar by age 19 10) John Lennon was 20 years & Paul Mcartney 18 when the Beatles had their first concert in1961 11) Jesse Owens was 22 when he won 4 gold medals in Berlin 1936 12) Beethoven was a Piano virtuoso by age 23 13) Issac Newton at 24 wrote Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica. 14) Roger Bannister was 25 When he broke the 4 minute mile record 15) Albert Einstein was 26 when he wrote the theory of relativity 16) Lance E Armstrong was 27 when he won the tour de France 17) Michelangelo created the two of the greatest sculptures “David” and “Pieta” by age 28 18) Alexander the Great by age 29, had created one of the largest empires of the ancient world 19) J.K.Rowling was 30 years old when she finished the first manuscript for Harry Potter 20) Amelia Earhart was 31 years old when she became the first woman 2 fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean 21) Oprah was 32 when she started her talk show, which has become the highest-rated program of its kind 22) Edmund Hillary was 33 when he became the first man to reach Mount Everest (highest Mountain in the world 23) Martin Luther King jr was 34 When he did the speech “I have a dream” 24) Marie Curie was 35 years old when she got nominated 4 Nobel Prize in Physics 1903 25) The Wright brothers, Orville (was 32 ) & Wilbur (was 36) when they invented & built the world's first successful airplane & making the first controlled, powered & sustained heavier-than-air human flight 26) Vincent Van Gogh was 37 when he died & virtually unknown yet his paintings today are worth millions 27) Neil Armstrong was 38 when he became the first man to set foot on the moon 28) Mark Twain was 40 when he wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and 49 years old for Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 29) Christopher Columbus was 41 when he discovered the Americas 30) Rosa Parks was 42 when she refused 2 obey bus driver’s order 2 give up her seat 2 make room for a white passenger. 31) John F. Kennedy was 43years when he became President of the United States 32) Henry Ford Was 45 when the Ford T came out 33) Suzanne Collins was 46 when she wrote “ The Hunger Games” 34) Charles Darwin was 50 years old when his book On the Origin of Species came out 35) Leonardo Da Vinci was 51 years old when he painted the Mona Lisa 36) Abraham Lincoln was 52 when he became president 37) Ray Kroc Was 53 when he bought the McDonalds Franchise and took it to unprecedented levels 38) Dr. Seuss was 54 when he wrote “the cat in the hat” 40) Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger III was 57 years old when he successfully ditched US Airways Flight 1549, in the Hudson River in, 2009. All of the 155 passengers aboard the aircraft survived. 41) Colonel Harland Sanders was 61 when he started the KFC Franchise 42) J R R Tolkien was 62 when the lord of the ring books came out 43) Ronald Reagan was 69 when he became President of the United States 44) Jack Lalane at age 70 handcuffed, shackled, towed 70 rowboats 45) Nelson Mandela was 76 When he Became Presid ↗
People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure. They are estranged from their families and their neighbors. It should tell us something that in healthy societies drug use is celebrative, convivial, and occasional, whereas among us it is lonely, shameful, and addictive. We need drugs, apparently, because we have lost each other. (pg. 61, "Racism and the Economy") ↗
#drugs #health #loneliness #art
Sometimes you fall, spinning through space, grasping for the things that keep you on this earth. Sometimes you catch them. They can be the hands of the people you love. They can be your pets- pups with funny names, cats with ferocious old souls. The thing that keeps you here can be your art. It can be things you have collected and invested with a certain sense of meaning. A flowered, buckled treasure chest of secrets. Shoes that make you taller and, therefore, closer to the heavens. A suit that belonged to your fairy godmother. A dress that makes you feel a little like the Goddess herself. Sometimes you keep falling; you don't catch anything. Sometimes you fall, spinning through space, grasping for the things that keep you here. Sometimes you catch them. Sometimes you don't. Sometimes they catch you. ↗
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If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with their comfortable little standards. Standards so low that they can no longer be considered "dangerous" but set in place in their compartmental understandings. ↗
Whether our action is wholesome or unwholesome depends on whether that action or deed arises from a disciplined or undisciplined state of mind. It is felt that a disciplined mind leads to happiness and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering, and in fact it is said that bringing about discipline within one's mind is the essence of the Buddha's teaching. ↗
