"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

"Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over despair."

- Robin Wall Kimmerer

"In the next 30 years we can destroy our world. With the very same powers - spiritual, social, scientific - we can evolve our world."

- Barbara Marx Hubbard

"The only way we really create change is to enter any situation with the humility to listen and to recognize the world as it is, and then the audacity to dream what it could be."

- Jacqueline Novogratz

"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

"How can everyone be powerful? Power is not a zero-sum game, where the power I have is necessarily power taken away from you. Instead, if we acknowledge that we are all interconnected,”

― Frederic Laloux

"Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer."

– E.M. Forster, from Howard's End

"At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division."

- Jesse Jackson

"Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me - choke those little bad days. Choke 'em down to nothing." - Tom Waits

"I like what the future holds. I don't like thinking about the past."

- John Cale

"Recognizing that sustainable development, democracy and peace are indivisible is an idea whose time has come... Today we are faced with a challenge that calls for a shift in our thinking"

- Wangari Maathai

"It is good to realize that falling apart is not such a bad thing. Indeed, it is as essential to evolutionary and psychological transformation as the cracking of outgrown shells."

- Joanna Macy

"The only way out is spiritual, intellectual, and emotional revolution in which, finally, we learn to experience first hand the interloping connections between person and person, organism and organism, action and consequence."

- Gregory Bateson

“Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.”

– Sigmund Freud

“Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”

– Henry James

“Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.”

– Wendell Berry

“If you are losing your leisure, look out! — It may be you are losing your soul.”

– Virginia Woolf

“You get further in life by avoiding repeated stupidity than you do by striving for maximum intelligence.”

- Charlie Munger