The Why... The reason we all look for, the ultimate answer to the biggest question. What is my purpose? Finding your Why demands that we look deep inside ourselves with clear eyes and ruthless honesty.

1. The Why…
By Amber-Lee Dibble, aka Alaska Chick

2. The Why..
 The Why is what inspires us.
 The Why is what motivates us.
 The Why is what heals our hearts.
 The Why is what speaks to others.
 The Why is the window into our souls.
 The Why is what connects us.

3. “Wabi Sabi
The beauty in it’s imperfection.
Do you see the beauty?”
~ Kaarina Dillabough

4. The Why is what inspires us.

6. Inspire:
To fill with the urge or
ability to do or feel
something.
To stimulate, encourage,
rouse, energize and to guide.

9. “The horse.
Here is nobility without conceit,
friendship without envy,
beauty without vanity.
A willing servant, yet never a slave.”
~ Ronald Duncan

11. The Why.
The Why is your purpose.
Yours.
The reason you were created.
The reason you are alive.
The reason you haven’t quit.
The reason you have suffered.
The Why is your gift to the world.

14. “The fire is the main comfort of the camp,
whether in summer or winter,
and is about as ample at one season
as at another.
It is as well for cheerfulness
as for warmth and dryness.”
~ Henry David Thoreau

17. Be confident. Too many days are
wasted comparing ourselves to others
and wishing to be something we aren’t.
Everybody has their own strengths and
weaknesses, and it is only when you
accept everything you are - and aren’t -
that you will truly succeed.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

19. The Why is what motivates us.

21. Motivation:
It is the reason one has
for acting or behaving
in a particular way.

24. “Blessed are they
who see beautiful things
in humble places
where other people
see nothing.”
~ Camille Pissarro

27. You MUST keep going.
You MUST continue to grow
and learn.
You MUST love again.
You MUST dream again.

30. “Look deep into nature,
and then you will understand
everything better.”
~ Albert Einstein

32. The Why is what heals our hearts.

34. “Bad things can happen,
and often do…
but they only take up a few pages of
your story;
and anyone can survive a few pages.”
~ James A. Owen

37. “Every mountain top
is within reach
if you just keep climbing.”
~ Barry Finlay

39. “We shall draw from the heart
of suffering itself the means
of inspiration and survival.”
~Winston Churchill

41. “I am still far
from being what I want to be,
but with God’s help
I shall succeed.”
~ Vincent Van Gogh

42. The Why is what speaks to others.

44. Walk the Talk
Every single day, every night.
Alone or while you are in the company of
others. When you are happy and satisfied.
When you are heartbroken or betrayed.
Walk the Talk when you are exhausted
and when you are excited and ready to
rock. Walk the Talk.
~ Alaska Chick

47. “If you smile
when no one else is around,
you really mean it.”
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

50. “Nothing of me is original.
I am the combined effort
of everybody I’ve ever known.”
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

53. The effort, the failures, the
betrayals, the pain, the
loneliness and the fears;
we all have them, are
overcome by them
and fall to them.

56. "The greater your capacity to love,
the greater your capacity to feel the pain."
~ Jennifer Anniston

59. “Do not go where the path may lead,
go instead where there is no path
and leave a trail.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

62. “One person can make a difference,
and everyone should try.”
~ John F. Kennedy

65. “You make a living by what you earn;
you make a life by what you give.”
- Winston Churchill

68. “Few are those
who see with their own eyes
and feel with their own hearts.”
- Albert Einstein

71. "Keep close to Nature's heart...
and break clear away, once in awhile,
and climb a mountain
or spend a week in the woods.
Wash your spirit clean."
~ John Muir

72. The Why is the window into our souls.

75. “The function of man is to live,
not to exist.
I shall not waste my days
trying to prolong them.
I shall use my time.”
~ Jack London.

78. “You have within you right now,
everything
you need to deal with whatever
the world can throw at you.”
~ Brian Tracy

81. "Everybody needs beauty
as well as bread,
places to play in and pray in,
where nature may heal
and give strength
to body and soul."
~ John Muir

84. “Once we’re thrown off our
habitual paths,
we think all is lost,
but it’s only here that the new
and the good begins.”
~ Leo Tolstoy

87. “Remember there's no such thing
as a small act of kindness.”
~ Scott Adams

90. The Why is what connects us.

91. “Every adversity, every failure,
every heartache
carries with it
the seed of an equal or greater benefit.”
~ Napoleon Hill

94. “We’re afraid,
it’s because we don’t know enough.
If we understood enough,
we would never be afraid.”
~ E. Nightingale

97. “Just because something doesn’t do
what you planned it to do doesn’t
mean it’s useless. “
~ Thomas A. Edison

100. “Do not condemn
the judgment of another
because it differs from your own.
You may both be wrong. “
~ Dandemis

103. "The best and most beautiful things
in the world cannot
be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart."
~ Helen Keller

106. The Why.