“Kindness eases change. Love quiets fear. And a sweet and powerful Positive obsession Blunts pain, Diverts rage, And engages each of us In the greatest, The most intense Of our chosen struggles.”
– Octavia E. Butler
Clarity First Newsletter,
March 20, 2020
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March 13, 2020
“None of us know what will happen. Don’t spend time worrying about it. Make the most beautiful thing you can. Try to do that every day. That’s it.” —Laurie Anderson
Clarity First Newsletter,
March 6, 2020
“It’s exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.” – Adrienne Rich
Clarity First Newsletter,
February 28, 2020
“You are never stronger than when you land on the other side of despair.” -Zadie Smith
Clarity First Newsletter,
February 21, 2020
“As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.” – Virginia Woolf
Clarity First Newsletter,
February 14, 2020
“Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.” – Anais Nin
Clarity First Newsletter,
February 7, 2020
“Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake up and live.” – Bob Marley
Clarity First Newsletter,
January 31, 2020
“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” – Malcolm X
Clarity First Newsletter,
January 24, 2020
“It’s time we nurture an ecosystem approach to business.” – Stacey Higginbotham
Clarity First Newsletter,
January 17, 2020
“We see with the eyes, but we see with the brain as well. And seeing with the brain is often called imagination.”—Oliver Sacks
Clarity First Newsletter,
January 10, 2020
“I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.” – Molly Ivins
Clarity First Newsletter,
January 3, 2020
“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” – Alvin Toffler
Clarity First Newsletter,
December 27, 2019
“We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives…not looking for flaws, but for potential.” -Ellen Goodman
Clarity First Newsletter,
December 20, 2019
“It’s not differences that divide us. It’s our judgments about each other that do.” -Margaret Wheatley
Clarity First Newsletter,
December 13, 2019
“The person more qualified to lead is not the physically stronger person. It is the more intelligent, the more knowledgeable, the more creative, more innovative. And there are no hormones for those attributes.” -Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists
Clarity First Newsletter,
December 6, 2019
“Hope is not about proving anything. It’s about choosing to believe this one thing, that love is bigger than any grim, bleak shit anyone can throw at us.” -Anne Lamott
Clarity First Newsletter,
November 29, 2019
“We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world…” -Wendell Berry, The Long-Legged House
Clarity First Newsletter,
November 22, 2019
“We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.” – Yoko Ono
Clarity First Newsletter,
November 15, 2019
“Businesses operate from a number of paradigms. Those that are hard-nosed and finance-driven are counterproductive in a world of rapid change and deep interdependence….” -Jane E. Dutton
Clarity First Newsletter,
November 8, 2019
“The most powerful person in the world is the storyteller. The storyteller sets the vision, values and agenda of an entire generation that is to come.” — Steve Jobs
Clarity First Newsletter,
October 25, 2019
“Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of evolution is its ability to generate cooperation in a competitive world.” – Martin Nowak
Clarity First Newsletter,
October 18, 2019
“Creating problems is easy. We do it all the time. Finding solutions, ones that last and produce good results, requires guts and care.” – Henry Rollins
Clarity First Newsletter,
October 11, 2019
“I want to be a force for real good. In other words,
I know that there are bad forces, forces that bring suffering to others and misery to the world, but I want to be the opposite force. I want to be the force which is truly for good.” – John Coltrane
