Quotes January 10, 2022

You don’t have to become something you’re not to be better than you were.
Sidney Poitier,
actor, film director
1927-2022
 
 
 
 
“Corporate social responsibility is measured in terms of businesses improving conditions for their employees, shareholders, communities, and environment. But moral responsibility goes further, reflecting the need for corporations to address fundamental ethical issues such as inclusion, dignity, and equality.”
Klaus Schwab
 
 
 
 
“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
Leo Tolstoy
 
 
 
 
“All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.”
François Fénelon
 
 
 
 
Recognition is famously a passage from ignorance to knowledge.
Amitav Ghosh
 
 
 
 
To listen to trees, nature’s great connectors, is to learn how to inhabit the relationships that give life its source, substance, and beauty
David George Haskell
 
 
 
 
My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
Desmond Tutu
 
 
 
 
When we listen with curiosity, we don’t listen with the intent to reply. We listen for what’s behind the words.
Roy T. Bennett
 
 
 
 
No one reaches out to you for compassion or empathy so you can teach them how to behave better. They reach out to us because they believe in our capacity to know our darkness well enough to sit in the dark with them.
Brene Brown
 
 
 
 
Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -1929-1968 – Social Activist-Minister