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Whether it’s tied to an entrepreneurial vision or simply made part of your every day life, giving pays back in ways you might not anticipate. Whether you’re helping a teacher and classroom in need, donating clothes or canned foods to a local shelter, volunteering for disaster relief, or giving up your birthday to help others get clean water, you’re doing something that makes a difference in the world. Don’t think you have to wait to do these things—get started right away because here’s the secret: there is compound interest in altruism.
— Biz Stone: There Is Compound Interest in Altruism (via bijan)
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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
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A Return to Love by Marianne Williamson (via 3rddegree)
Wise words. I need to read this every morning!
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The final thing I’d say about optimism is this. If we took the loopiest, most moonbeam-addled Californian utopian internet bullshit, and held it up against the most cynical, realpolitik-inflected scepticism, the Californian bullshit would still be a better predictor of the future. Which is to say that, if in 1994 you’d wanted to understand what our lives would be like right now, you’d still be better off reading a single copy of Wired magazine published in that year than all of the sceptical literature published ever since.
— Clay Shirky, quoted in The Guardian (via factoryjoe)
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Stay hungry. Stay foolish.
— Steve Jobs addressing Stanford grads
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When at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
— Albert Einstein
