The Clarity Blog

“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.

“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.”            

– Alvin Toffler

“There is no beginning to an end
But there is a beginning and an end
To beginning.”

– Gertrude Stein

“Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence, summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance, winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.”

— Yoko Ono

“Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.”                                                       – Barbara Kingsolver

“There’s no such thing as a mistake. A mistake is only an opportunity to do something else.”
– Ralph Steadman

“We must use what we have to invent what we desire.”

– Adrienne Rich

“Life is short and the world is at least half terrible, and for every kind stranger, there is one who would break you, though I keep this from my children. I am trying to sell them the world…”
– Maggie Smith, Good Bones

“Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice… No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.”
 – Thich Nhat Hanh

“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.” – Howard Zinn

“It is our stories that will recreate us, when we are torn, hurt, even destroyed. It is the storyteller, the dream-maker, the myth-maker, that is our phoenix, that represents us at our best, and at our most creative.” – Doris Lessing

“There is a myth that the purpose of education is to give one the means for upward mobility and success. The plain truth is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does need desperately more peacemakers, healers, restorers, story tellers, and lovers…” – David W. Orr

“Recognizing that sustainable development, democracy and peace are indivisible is an idea whose time has come…” – Wangari Maathai

“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne 

“Chance favors the connected mind.” – Steven Johnson