“If you love a flower, don’t pick it up.
Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love.
So if you love a flower, let it be.
Love is not about possession.
Love is about appreciation.”
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Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love.
So if you love a flower, let it be.
Love is not about possession.
Love is about appreciation.”
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“We have come to discover what we suspect is a new political mindset emerging among a younger generation of political leaders socialized on Internet communications. Their politics are less about right versus left and more about centralized and authoritarian versus distributed and collaborative.”
― The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World
― The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World
“We are born with two incurable diseases, life, from which we die, and hope, which says maybe death isn't the end.”
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“But the financial crisis exposed many of our political and business leaders for what they are: self-interested, exploitative, and reckless elites, who would rather see the planet burn than sacrifice an iota of their wealth.”
― Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialisation
― Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialisation
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