Though either choice was good, one was truer to myself... Ultimately, I reflected on Geothe’s invocation to ‘make a commitment and the forces of the universe will conspire to make it happen’ and chose the uncharted path.
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.” – George Bernard Shaw.
If you don’t like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.” – Marian Wright Edelman.
Your job is not to be perfect, your job is only to be human.
Sometimes the most important things that we do are things we cannot measure.
When we deny the poor and the vulnerable their own human dignity and capacity for freedom and choice, it becomes self-denial. It becomes a denial of both our collective and individual dignity, at all levels of society.
The only way we really create change is to enter any situation with the humility to listen and to recognize the world as it is, and then the audacity to dream what it could be.
I think we so often equate leadership with being experts – the leader is supposed to come in and fix things. But in this interconnected world we live in now, it’s almost impossible for just one person to do that.
Dignity is more important to the human spirit than wealth.
Why do some people stop growing at age 30, just going from work to the couch and television, when others stay vibrant, curious, almost childlike into their nineties?
My dream is to find individuals who take financial resources and convert them into changing the world in the most positive ways.
Poverty is not only about income levels, but for lack of freedom that comes from physical insecurity.
As a young woman, I dreamed of changing the world. In my twenties, I went to Africa to try and save the continent, only to learn that Africans neither wanted nor needed saving. Indeed, when I was there, I saw some of the worst that good intentions, traditional charity, and aid can produce...
People really don’t want handouts, that they want to make their own decisions.
Just start. Don’t wait for perfection. Just start and let the work teach you.