The Clarity Blog

“Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”

– Henry James

“Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.”
                                                           – Wendell Berry

“You get further in life by avoiding repeated stupidity than you do by striving for maximum intelligence.”  

— Charlie Munger

“We live in a time when science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compassion is not a luxury; it is a necessity for our well-being, resilience, and survival.”

– Joan Halifax

“Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.”                                                  
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“In our researches on the likely economic apocalypse it’s become clear what is the prime survival tool for hard times: friends. Good friends. Lots of them.”              

– Stewart Brand

“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”                                                                

– Joseph Cambell

“‘Star Trek’ seems to be an appeal to our better nature, the side of ourselves that works toward peace and cooperation and understanding and knowledge and yearns to seek out knowledge rather than the side that wants to divide and control one another.”

–  John Cho

“As you get up in the morning, as you make decisions, as you spend money, make friends, make commitments, you are creating a piece of art called your life.”  

– Mary Catherine Bateson

“Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.”

– Margaret Mead

“Despite current ads and slogans, the world doesn’t change one person at a time. It changes when networks of relationships form among people who share a common cause and vision of what’s possible…”                                            

– Margaret Wheatley

“The person who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”

– Confucius 

“Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.” 

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.”

— W.E.B. Du Bois 

“Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end. The exclusivism of there being only one way in which we can be saved….”

– Joseph Campbell

“I used to believe that gratitude for life came from being happy, but I have come to realize that the reverse is also true, perhaps even more so: being happy comes from feeling grateful for life.” 

– William Ury