#unity

We need to bridge our sense of loneliness and disconnection with a sense of community and continuity even if we must manufacture it from our time on the Web and our use of calling cards to connect long distance. We must “log on” somewhere, and if it is only in cyberspace, that is still far better than nowhere at all. (264) ↗

— Julia Cameron

#connection #continuity #disconnection #friendships #loneliness

I am innocent! But only because the opportunity to partake in an activity that would render me guilty has not presented itself. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#guity #innocent #opportunity #funny

But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life gives us something that we could hardly imagine. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#life #life-and-living #life-lessons #opportunity #unexpected

We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift. ↗

— Al Gore

#change #collaboration #community #policy #shift

To be a librarian is not to be neutral, or passive, or waiting for a question. It is to be a radical positive change agent within your community. ↗

— R. David Lankes

#community #librarians #libraries #change

Change. Adapt. Bend so as not to be broken. Let opportunity guide your actions. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#adaptation #bending #breaking #change #chi-ro-jin

I have inherited a belief in community, the promise that a gathering of the spirit can both create and change culture. ↗

— Terry Tempest Williams

#change

Classifying depression as an illness serves the psychiatric community and pharmaceutical corporations well; it also soothes the frightened, guilty, indifferent, busy, sadistic, and unschooled. To understand depression as a call for life-changes is not profitable. Stagnation is not a medical term. The 17.5 million Americans diagnosed as suffering a major depression in 1997 were mostly damned. (Psychobiological examinations confuse cause and symptom.) Deficient serotonergic functioning, ventral prefrontal cerebral cortex, dis-inhibition of impulsive-aggressive behavior, blah blah blah: the medical lexicon boils emotion from human being. Go take a drug, the doctor says. Pain is a biochemical phenomenon. Erase all memory. ↗

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

#biochemical-phenomenon #cause-and-symptom #disinhibition #doctors #drugs

You've got to seize the opportunity if it is presented to you. ↗

— Clive Davis

#opportunity #presented #seize #you

I didn't just hear music. It seemed as if I were part of the music. ↗

— Don Piper

#unity #worship #death