“Sure, that can happen. We have an experience—like a chemical reaction—that transforms something inside us. When we examine ourselves later on, we discover that all the standards we've lived by have shot up another notch and the world's opened up in unexpected ways.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Positive change in the world, too, is an accumulation. Don't attribute tragedy to a personal failing. Do right by others and by yourself and you'll see your own life, and later the world's, shift for the better.”— Sam Sykes, twitter.com
“You can't just stay down & accept defeat. If your life isn't going the way you want it, you have to make a change for the better. GET UP!”— Wesley Snipes, twitter.com
“And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself.”— Leo Tolstoy, amazon.com
“We need to change our way of thinking and seeing things. We need to realise that the Earth is not just our environment. The Earth is not something outside of us. Breathing with mindfulness and contemplating your body, you realise that you are the Earth. You realise that your consciousness is also th…”— Thich Nhat Hanh, newsroom.uat.unfccc.int