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Fri 17 Jul 2020

Tech

Posted by PJ under change, despair, ideals and idealism, quote of the day, selfish, technology
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“When did we begin to lose faith in our ability to effect change? Perhaps the demoralizing murders of John and Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King scared the civic-minded young people of the 1960s right out of their idealism into despair and then, to indifference. Perhaps it was the 1980s when the opportunity inherent in the American Dream was distorted from the land of “we” to the land of “to hell with anybody else but me.” Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress.”

—Wynton Marsalis, interview, NBC.com, July 11, 2008

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Fri 3 Jul 2020

Change

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“At the end of the day, the only person you can truly change is yourself. So, you do that, you try to affect the people around you and do what you can, do your part to make a difference.”

—Queen Latifah, NPR, October 17, 2008

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Fri 15 May 2020

Change

Posted by PJ under change, immigrants, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“We started from scratch, every American an immigrant who came because he wanted change. Why are we now afraid to change?”

—Eleanor Roosevelt, Tomorrow Is Now

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Fri 19 Jul 2019

Zen

Posted by PJ under change, connection, mindfulness, quote of the day, zen
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Random quote of the day:

“Zen pretty much comes down to three things—everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.”

—Jane Hirshfield, interview, Fooling With Words by Bill Moyers

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Mon 21 Jan 2019

Change

Posted by PJ under change, courage and fear, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Courage is the atom of change.”

—Bettina R. Flores, Chiquita’s Cocoon

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Fri 21 Dec 2018

Be here now

Posted by PJ under change, in the moment, mindfulness, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“It turns out that being present is a courageous act. It involves discerning what we cannot change and changing what we can. We cannot change other people or the forces that act on us—we cannot change the relentless force of change. But we can change the quality of our presence here and now. We can turn away from the old thoughts, pull ourselves out of the deep groove of habit, and be here now.”

—Tracy Cochran, “Life Preserver,” tracycochran.org, April 30, 2014

 

HAPPY HOLIDAYS, EVERYONE. THE QUOTE OF THE DAY WILL BE ON VACATION UNTIL JANUARY 2.

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Thu 4 Oct 2018

No surrender

Posted by PJ under change, quote of the day, the self
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Random quote of the day:

“Don’t surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn’t true anymore.”

—Cheryl Strayed, “Dear Sugar, The Rumpus Advice Column #60: The World Lit by Other People,” December 16, 2010

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Thu 28 Sep 2017

Shedding

Posted by PJ under change, meaning, quote of the day, transformation
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Random quote of the day:

“We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.

—Joseph Campbell, quoted in A Joseph Campbell Companion, ed. Diane K. Osbon

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Tue 7 Feb 2017

That which needs to be done

Posted by PJ under action and activism, change, quote of the day, work
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Random quote of the day:

“The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done. Then you will conceive your own way of doing that which needs to be done—that no one else has told you to do or how to do it. This will bring out the real you that often gets buried inside a character that has acquired a superficial array of behaviors induced or imposed by others on the individual.”

—R. Buckminster Fuller, letter dated 2/16/70 to Michael, a 10 year old boy who asked if he was a “doer” or a “thinker”

 

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Fri 9 Dec 2016

Change

Posted by PJ under change, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.”

—John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday

 

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