We all use power. So to achieve a "big difference" in total power consumption you need almost everyone to make a "big" difference in their own power consumption. If everyone does a little all that we will get is a little.
Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.Henry David Thoreau
"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation."- Robert F. Kennedy
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
- Bertrand Russell
We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.
- Eric Hoffer
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
- (attributed to) Marcel Proust
Yes, there are eaters who think it in their interest that food just be as cheap as possible, no matter how poor the quality. But there are many more who recognize the real cost of artificially cheap food — to their health, to the land, to the animals, to the public purse.Michael Pollan
Small rooms or dwellings discipline the mind, large ones weaken it.Leonardo DaVinci
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity... It turns problems into gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Ultimately your greatest teacher is to live with an open heart.The Ripples ProjectEmmanuel
If we all did what we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.Quote courtesy of a splash at The Ripples Project. (Or the "positive thinking fortune cookie project" as I introduce it to others. ;-)Source Unknown
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
I will try this day to live a simple, sincere, and serene life, repelling [thoughts] of discontent, anxiety, discouragement, and self-seeking; cultivating cheerfulness and magnanimity; exercising economy in expenditure, generosity in giving, and thoughtfulness in conversation."A Morning Resolve" (edited)
Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.
I would not prolong
Further a life that soon enough
Must have an end
If the waste of days and months
Is only to widen the more.
- Fujiwara Teika (1162-1241)
