“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

“your purpose

your art

will land in the hearts

it’s meant to”

– 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

“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

“Perhaps it requires of you precisely this existential anxiety in order to begin. Precisely these days of transition are perhaps the period when everything in you is working..”

– Rainer Maria Rilke

“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

“Life is only limited by our prejudices. Destroy them, and you cease to be at the mercy of yourself.”

– Mina Loy

“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

“I am an optimist. It’s going OK. I don’t believe anyone is going to stop the spirit of all the humans out there.”

– Gillian Welch