1. Human rights are not a matter of charity, nor are they a reward for obeying immigration rules. Human rights are inalienable entitlements of every human being, wherever they are and whatever their status.

    Navi Pillay, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

  2. The tragedy of the commons stands for the dilemma in which multiple individuals acting independently can ultimately destroy a shared limited resource even when it is clear that it is not in anyone’s long term interest for this to happen.

    Garrett Harden

  3. Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house.

    Mother Teresa

  4. Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our place in an immensity of light-years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual. So are our emotions in the presence of great art or music or literature, or acts of exemplary selfless courage such as those of Mohandas Gandhi or Martin Luther King, Jr. The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.

    Carl Sagan

  5. Ideas relating to finance, economics, politics, society - are very often tainted by people’s personal ideologies. I really hope that this complexity perspective allows for some common ground to be found. It would be great if it has the power to help end the gridlock created by conflicting ideas which appear to be paralyzing our globalized world. Reality is so complex - we need to move away from dogma.

    James B. Glattfelder

  6. “1% of america has 40% of all the nation’s wealth. The bottom 80%…only has 7% between them.”

  7. Why, God?

    “For whatever reason, certainly foreign to most of us, God has chosen to enter the world today through others, through us.”

    “I have never found it easy to be with people who suffer, to enter into the chaos of others. Yet, every time I have done so, it has been a gift to me…I am pulled out of myself to be love’s presence to someone else, even as they are love’s presence to me.”

  8. Just accept yourself exactly how you are and the struggle will disappear. Your energy will become a vast reservoir of love, settled and relaxed, then you can listen deeply and trust your inner being.

    Swami Rajneesh 

    (via knmanda)

  9. If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.

    Lao Tzu

  10. Science is the poetry of reality.

    Richard Dawkins