When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the science about what is happening on earth and aren’t pessimistic, you don’t understand data. But if you meet the people who are working to restore this earth and the lives of the poor, and you aren’t optimistic, you haven’t got a pulse. What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of grace, justice, and beauty to this world. Paul Hawken
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  2. When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace. - Patricia Briggs
  3. All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which... - Simone Weil
  4. Aye me, how many perils do enfold The righteous man, to make him daily fall? Were not, that heavenly grace doth him uphold, And steadfast truth acquite him out of all. - Edmund Spenser
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More Quotes By Paul Hawken
  1. Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.
  2. The bottom line is down where it belongs - at the bottom.
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  4. Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked what we would do if the stars only came out once every thousand years. No one would sleep that night, of course. The world would create new religions overnight. We would be ecstatic, delirious, made rapturous by the glory of...
  5. Wrong is an addictive, repetitive story; Right is where the movement is.
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