The Clarity Blog

“Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of evolution is its ability to generate cooperation in a competitive world.” – Martin Nowak

“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

“There’s a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.” – Lou Reed

“If you really want to get along with somebody, let them be themselves.” – Willie Nelson

“Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals”. –  Neil Gaiman

“Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.” – E. O. Wilson

“Since Active Hope doesn’t require our optimism, we can apply it even in areas where we feel hopeless. The guiding impetus is intention; we choose what we aim to bring about, act for, or express. Rather than weighing our chances and proceeding only when we feel hopeful, we focus on our intention and let it be our guide.” – Joanna Macy

“It’s important to remember on this anniversary that the true meaning of Woodstock was spiritual. My line about ‘there is little bit of heaven in every disaster area’ was a realized truth.” – Wavy Gravy
 

“Oh lonesome’s a bad place
To get crowded into.”  – Kenneth Patchen

“Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds.” – Regina Brett

“Innovation is combinatorial. It combines old things to make the new.” – Andreas Wagner

“Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of humans as self-sufficiency. Humans are social beings.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the year’s threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of and becomes the future; the place of caught breath.”
                                                  – Margaret Atwood

“I’m not going to knock on any closed doors. I’m going to make my own door.” – Ana DuVernay*

“Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.”

– Blaise Pascal

“It’s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.” – Roy E. Disney