The Turmoil Of Jupiter’s Clouds Looking Like An Impressionist Painting, Imaged With The Juno Spacecraft

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. When you are born a lotus flower, be a beautiful lotus flower, don't try to be a magnolia flower. If you crave acceptance and recognition and try to change yourself to fit what other people want you to be, you will suffer all your life. True happiness and true power lie in understanding yourself, accepting yourself, having confidence in yourself.

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

Kees Scherer - Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, Picasso. MOMA New York City 1959

Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) “Vase with Irises” (1890) Oil on canvas Post-Impressionism Located in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York, United States

Clair de Lune, Debussy

Greta Thunberg led a protest at the White House on Friday. But she wasn’t looking to go inside, saying, “I don’t want to meet with people who don’t accept the science.”

The young Swedish activist joined a large crowd of protesters who had gather outside, calling for immediate action to help the environment and reverse an alarming warming trend in average global temperatures.

She says her message for President Trump is the same thing she tells other politicians: Listen to science, and take responsibility.

Thunberg, 16, will spend nearly a week in Washington, D.C. But she says she doesn’t plan to meet with anyone from the Trump administration during that time.

Greta Thunberg To U.S.: ‘You Have A Moral Responsibility’ On Climate Change

Photos: Mhari Shaw/NPR

please make sure that wherever you’re at in life, you don’t treat it like a transitory period. don’t waste your college years wishing to already be graduated & have a job. don’t waste your single years wishing for someone to be in love with. if/when those things come, they will come in due time and they will be good. but there is nothing like looking back and feeling empty because you wasted literal years ignoring what you had because you were hoping for something better. while it’s important to better yourself and reach for your goals, don’t neglect the present because that’s where you are now and it’s your now that determines your future. 

Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.

— Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart