“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
“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
“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
“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
“If I may throw out a word of counsel to beginners, it is: Treasure your exceptions! When there are none, the work gets so dull that no one cares to carry it further. Keep them always uncovered and in sight…”
– William Bateson
“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
“Poetry is not resting on the given,
but a questing towards what might otherwise be.”
—Adrienne Rich
“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
“The urgent finds you; you have to find the important. Importance is not fast. It is slow. It is not superficial. It is deep. And as a result, it’s extremely powerful. When important matters go wrong, they undermine everything. When they go right, they sustain everything.”
– Stewart Brand
“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
“Is this the tipping point we have been waiting for when companies are prepared to shift their mentality and practices towards true sustainability and positive purpose?”
– SB’21 Trend Watching: Brands’ Role in Reshaping the World in 2021 and Beyond
“your purpose your art will land in the hearts it’s meant to you won’t be for everyone but you are for someone and to that someone what you have to give matters and that’s the beginning of everything.”
– Danielle Doby*
“Life is the dancer and you are the dance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
“Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.”
– bell hooks
“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Imagination is the language of the soul. Pay attention to your imagination and you will discover all you need to be fulfilled.”
– Albert Einstein
“The time is always right to do what is right.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
“In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.”
– Eric Hoffer