If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic.

—Hazel Henderson

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About Hazel Henderson

Jean Hazel Henderson (née Mustard; 27 March 1933 – 22 May 2022) was an American futurist and environmental activist. As an autodidact in her twenties, having only a British high-school formal education, in the U.S. she gradually advanced, by virtue of citizen activism, into the roles of university lecturer and...

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They say that there are moments that open up your life like a walnut cracked, that change your point of view so that you never look at things the same way again.

—Jodi Picoult in Keeping Faith

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I am no longer afraid of anger. I find it to be a creative, transforming force; anger is a stage I must go though if I am ever to get to what lies beyond.

—Mary Kaye Medinger

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…you are meant to grow into a true human being. Right now you are to a human being what an acorn is to an oak tree. A good start, that's all. You've got a long way to go, baby, and you're not going to grow into your full potential sitting in front of the laptop, bag of Cool Ranch Doritos in one hand, dick in the other, anime porn boring a hole in your corneas and consciousness. Just a thought.

—Shozan Jack Haubner in Zen Confidential: Confessions of a Wayward Monk

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There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, which demanded that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.

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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

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