The Clarity Blog

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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