How to Change the World Quotes

“What we need is often exactly what we already have.”
― John-Paul Flintoff, How to Change the World

“The fact is that anything we do might be characterised as unhelpful, if only by people far away from ourselves, in time or space, who must deal with consequences that are hidden from us. Being aware of this, we are less likely to get carried away with messianic zeal, and that's no bad thing. In changing the world we can proceed with a degree of humility.”
― John-Paul Flintoff, How to Change the World

“The search for meaning must always come before the pursuit of happiness, Frankl insists, as we must have a reason to be happy. Once the reason is found, one becomes happy automatically. But when Frankl talked about meaning, he didn’t only mean some grand, ultimate purpose, of the sort that might appear on our gravestone. He meant the potential meaning inherent and dormant in every situation we ever encounter. ‘The perception of meaning boils down to becoming aware of what can be done about a given situation.”
― John-Paul Flintoff, How to Change the World