“Hm . . . yes, all is in a man’s hands and he lets it all slip from cowardice, that’s an axiom. It would be interesting to know what it is men are most afraid of. Taking a new step, uttering a new word is what they fear most. . . . But I am
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The next highlight would suggest that he us prone to talking to himself, or alternately caught up in his thoughts.
“I do it for the relationships. I like to spend my time with people who are trying to make the world a fairer, kinder place. I’ve been in groups like this since college, and they have made me happy.”
― The Green Boat: Reviving Ourselves in Our Capsized Culture
― The Green Boat: Reviving Ourselves in Our Capsized Culture
“As we go about our troubled and sometimes frenzied lives, in this time of the Great Acceleration, we have close at hand ways we can move out of the time zone of our current century and into a transcendent experience. We can do this by simply recognizing our kinship with another living being, by finding one beautiful thing to enjoy, or by allowing ourselves to be swept away emotionally by the miraculous and intricate world we have all around us.”
― The Green Boat: Reviving Ourselves in Our Capsized Culture
― The Green Boat: Reviving Ourselves in Our Capsized Culture
“This pivotal experience taught Mitch that to participate in a democracy, you must show up, meet people, and volunteer. It doesn’t work to wait to be discovered.”
― The Green Boat: Reviving Ourselves in Our Capsized Culture
― The Green Boat: Reviving Ourselves in Our Capsized Culture
“when people come together, they can accomplish more than they can by individual actions. With this transformation from “me” to “we,” the wind picks up, the sails fill, and the boat is off. . . Media coverage tends to focus on one person and doesn’t point out that the heroine of a story has the support of a small group behind her.”
― The Green Boat: Reviving Ourselves in Our Capsized Culture
― The Green Boat: Reviving Ourselves in Our Capsized Culture
“Too many people only dream at night. I like to dream during the day.”
― The Green Boat: Reviving Ourselves in Our Capsized Culture
― The Green Boat: Reviving Ourselves in Our Capsized Culture
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