You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
It's not too late at all. You just don't yet know what you are capable of. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Opinion is the great, indeed the only coordinating force in our system. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true. — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
All big things are made up of trifles. My entire life has been built on trifles. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature. — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Every good movement passes through five stages, indifference, ridicule, abuse, repression, and respect. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We are not lacking in the dynamic forces needed to create the future. We live immersed in a sea of energy beyond… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
We must always base our commitment in the center of our own being, or else no commitment will be ultimately authentic. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Reformers who are always compromising, have not yet grasped the idea that truth is the only safe ground to stand upon. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Concentration is inspiration. You must be completely overtaken by your work and your subject. Only then do all your influences and experience… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Lasting change happens when people see for themselves that a different way of life is more fulfilling than their present one. — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
The climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; The arts of building… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The earth is literally our mother, not only because we depend on her for nurture and shelter but even more because the… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to… — David R. Brower Copy Share Image
Honest hope has an edge. It's messy. It requires that we let go of all pat answers, all preconceived formulas, all confidence… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
I want us all to face our fears and stop behaving like our goal in life is to merely survive. "Surviving" is… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
[Pleasure is what suggested] which behaviors, emotions, social patterns and patterns of taste served us well during our evolutionary history. They were… — Lionel Tiger Copy Share Image
The only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another United States. We can't let other countries have… — Michael Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Someone who does not draw strength from himself and who is incapable of finding the meaning of his life within himself will...seek… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Compassion has nothing to do with achievement at all. It is spacious and very generous. When a person develops real compassion, he… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Many of us worry about the situation of the world . . . We need to remain calm, to see clearly. Meditation… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
One should pay attention to even the smallest crawling creature for these too may have a valuable lesson to teach us. — Black Elk Copy Share Image
But we have only begun to love the earth. We have only begun to imagine the fullness of life. How could we… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
By the end of this century, climate change will reduce the human population to a few breeding pairs surviving near the Arctic. — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis... — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe. — Daniel Botkin Copy Share Image
We are the makers of our own state and...individuals who realize the fact need not, ought not, to wait for collective action. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Don't wait for anyone to deputize you or authorize you or empower you. You have to just start out with yourself...and put… — Hazel Henderson Copy Share Image
There can be no purpose more enspiriting than to begin the age of restoration, reweaving the wondrous diversity of life that still… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Talk and write in a way that encourages the mutual exchange of ideas and acts like a midwife to people birthing their… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
I am in favor of [actions] that have authenticity, roots, originality, verve, balance, taste, communicativeness, challenge, relevance to their time-in short, things… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
If we cannot envision the world we would like to live in, we cannot work towards its creation. If we cannot place… — Chellis Glendinning Copy Share Image
Right now over 70 percent of the world population is convinced that something serious has to be done about the dangers facing… — Paul Ray Copy Share Image
If we take a survey of the greatest actions...in the world...we shall find the authors of them all to have been persons… — John Adams Copy Share Image
![“[Pleasure is what suggested] which behaviors, emotions, social patterns and patterns of taste served us well during our evolutionary history. They were experienced as pleasures and encoded into our formative genetic codes . . . deep in the past, from about 100,000 years ago and beyond.” quote by Lionel Tiger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/41d/lionel-tiger-42821_behavior_pleasure-is-what-suggested-which-behavio_1246259.jpg)
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