The Clarity Blog

“I don’t think we are going to become extinct. We’re very clever and extremely resourceful – and we will find ways of preserving ourselves, of that I’m sure. But whether our lives will be as rich as they are now is another question.” – David Attenborough

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.” – Marianne Williamson

“If the world is to be healed through human efforts,
I am convinced it will be by ordinary people, people whose love for this life is even greater than their fear.” – Joanna R. Macy

“The point is to explore whatever may be helpful for thinking, understanding, and acting responsibly over long periods of time.” – Stewart Brand

“And when I do pay attention, very close attention, when I open myself fully to your humanity, your complexity, your reality, then I find, always, under every other feeling and judgement and emotion, that I love you. Even between you and me, even there, the lines are only of our own making.” – Donella Meadows

“More and more I find I want to be living in a Big Here and a Long Now.” – Stewart Brand

“We have the capacity to create a remarkably different economy: one that can restore ecosystems and protect the environment while bringing forth innovation, prosperity, meaningful work, and true security.” – Paul Hawken

“Problem solving is by definition focused on addressing what exists and attempting to make it better. True innovation comes from reaching for the potential in something: it’s possible manifestations that don’t yet exist.” – Carol Sanford

“The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.” – Agha Hasan Abedi

“Not all of us are painters but we are all artists. Each time we fit things together we are creating – whether it is to make a loaf of bread, a child, a day.” – Sister Corita Kent

“Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.” – Rumi

“Wait a minute. How did this happen? We’re smarter than this.” – Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi, Star Wars

“Art is about building a new foundation, not just laying something on top of what’s already there.” – Prince

“The Christians stole the winter solstice from the pagans, and capitalism stole it from the Christians.” – George Monbiot

“There is too much bad news to justify complacency. There is too much good news to justify despair.” – Donella Meadows

“The first inspiration I ever had was the cosmos, the planetary system.” – Alexander Calder