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#1

“Anyone who things that you can have infinite growth in a finite environment is either a madman or an economist.”
― Paul Polman, Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take

tags: business, climate-change, economics, environment, nature, sustainability

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#2

“The most lethal part of the human body is not the fist; it is the eye. What people see and how people see it has everything to do with power.”
― Alok Vaid-Menon

tags: expression, gender, judgement, queer

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#3

“Our current economic system has two fundamental weaknesses: it’s based on unlimited growth on a finite planet, and it benefits a small number of people, not everyone.”
― Paul Polman, Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take

tags: business, change, climate, economics, economy, sustainability, sustainable

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#4

“People with purpose thrive, brands with purpose grow, and companies with purpose last.”
― Paul Polman, Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take

tags: business, climate-change, companies, environment, leadership, purpose, sustainability

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#5

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

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#6

“As a woman in this world, it is important to take up space and make yourself heard even if it intimidates and offends powerful men.”
― Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

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#7

“It helps to find solace in the larger universe, especially when your internal world isn't hospitable.”
― Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

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#8

“The joy of discovery is one of the biggest pleasures you'll ever know.”
― Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

tags: knowledge, learning, lgbt, queer

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#9

“Being surrounded by people who fuel you is intentional.”
― Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

tags: lgbtq, memoir, muslim

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#10

“What is a game?" Marx said. "It's tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. It's the possibility of infinite rebirth, infinite redemption. The idea that if you keep playing, you could win. No loss is permanent, because nothing is permanent, ever.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

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#11

“And what is love, in the end?" Alabaster said. "Except the irrational desire to put evolutionary competitiveness aside in order to ease someone else's journey through life?”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

tags: journey-through-life, what-is-love

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#12

“We are all living, at most, half of a life, she thought. There was the life you lived, which consisted of the choices you made. And then, there was the other life, the one that was the things you hadn't chosen.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

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#13

“If you're always aiming for perfection, you won't make anything at all.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

tags: perfection

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#14

“It isn’t a sadness, but a joy, that we don’t do the same things for the length of our lives.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

tags: joy, life, philosophy, repetition, sadness

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#15

“You're flying more slowly than last time, because you don't want to miss any of it. You're flying over the strawberry field, but you know it's a trap. This time you keep flying.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

tags: death, dying, flying

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#16

“What are we drinking to?"
"The living," said Rhy.
"The dead," said Alucard and Lila at the same time.
"We're being thorough," added Rhy.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Conjuring of Light

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#17

“Life isn't made of choices, it's made of trades. Some are good, some are bad, but they all have a cost.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Conjuring of Light

tags: holland

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#18

“There were a hundred shades between a truth and lie, and she knew them all.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Conjuring of Light

tags: delilah-bard, lies, truth

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#19

“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”
― Aimee Nezhukumatathil, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments

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#20

“There is a time for stillness, but who hasn’t also wanted to scream with delight at being outdoors? To simply announce themselves and say, I’m here, I exist?”
― Aimee Nezhukumatathil, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks and Other Astonishments

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#21

“How can one even imagine us getting back to a place where we know the names of the trees we walk by every single day? A place where “a bird” navigating a dewy meadow is transformed into something more specific, something we can hold onto by feeling its name on our tongues: brown thrasher. Or that “big tree”: catalpa. Maybe what we can do when we feel overwhelmed is to start small. Start with what we have loved as kids and see where that leads us.”
― Aimee Nezhukumatathil, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments

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#22

“But I think it’s the quiet way you settle into the crook of a tree trunk, the still and slowdown of your heart in a world that wants us to be quick and to move onto the next thing.”
― Aimee Nezhukumatathil, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments

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#23

“When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue—you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night—there’s all heaven and earth in a book, a real book I mean.”
― Christopher Morley, Parnassus on Wheels

tags: books, literature, reading, words

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#24

“There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning. A man should be learning as he goes; and he should be earning bread for himself and others; and he should be yearning, too: yearning to know the unknowable.”
― Christopher Morley, Parnassus On Wheels

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#25

“If a man is settled in one place he years to wander, when he wander he yearns to have a home. And yet how bestial is content - all the great things in life are done by discontented people.”
― Christopher Morley, Parnassus On Wheels

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#26

“He'd been planting trees in the wilderness for 3 years. He'd planted a hundred thousand of them. Out of those, twenty thousand had come up. Of the twenty thousand he expected to lose half, because of rodents or the unpredictable ways of Providence. That still meant ten Thousand Oaks would grow where before there had been nothing.”
― Jean Giono, The Man Who Planted Trees

tags: environmentalism, inspirational, nature, sustainability

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#27

“There are also times in life when a person has to rush off in pursuit of hopefulness.”
― Jean Giono, The Man Who Planted Trees

tags: hope, hopeful, inspirational

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#28

“She bent most of the rules. She broke the rest.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows

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#29

“Everyone thinks I have a death wish, you know? But I don't want to die - dying is easy. No, I want to live, but getting close to death is the only way to feel alive. And once you do, it makes you realize that everything you were actually doing before wasn't actually living. It was just making do. Call me crazy, but I think we do the best living when the stakes are high.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows

tags: feeling-alive, living

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#30

“Whatever I am, let it be enough”
― V.E. Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows

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