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"We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources."
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"When it comes to perfection, the most that we could possibly do is to continuously push closer and closer to it. It is truly something to aim at, just to see how close you could get to it."
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Personal Development
"If you want to do something better, do it with profound love."
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Personal Development
"Maybe there's more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time."
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Personal Development
"Resolutions are popular because everyone feels they could use a little improvement."
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Personal Development
"To become a better you, don't dream of becoming a superior over other people. Dream of becoming a superior over your previous achievements."
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Personal Development
"When does the external work improve? It improves when inner peace is attained."
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Personal Development
"You need to assess yourself on a yearly basis and see how far you have gone and what you still need to work on."
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Personal Development
"Practice without improvement is meaningless."
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Personal Development
"The beginning of change can on start from accepting the fact that there are some things about your life that you desperately need to change or improve on."
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Personal Development
"Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better."
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"That inefficiency is masked because growth and progress are measured in money, and money does not give us information about ecological systems, it only gives information about financial systems."
Money
"We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources."
Improvement
"Local companies don't have to internalize their costs, and few actually do, but they tend to more often because the owners live there and they have to show their face in town, and their kids play with other kids."
Kids
"Businesses who are members of Businesses for Social Responsibility or the Social Venture Network are internalizing costs on a voluntary basis and therefore raising their costs of doing business, but their competitors are not required to."
Business
"Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single factor."
Life
"What we are missing, utterly and completely, in this government is accountability."
Government
"The financial capital is being concentrated by corporations, institutional investors, and even our pension funds, and being reinvested in companies that repeat this process because it provides the highest return on that financial capital."
Finance
"The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them."
First
"Interestingly, the oil companies know very well that in less than 30 years they will not only be charging very high prices, but that they will be uncompetitive with renewables."
Oil
"If, as is natural, you focus on the corruption and on those threatened institutions that are trying to prevent change - even though they don't really know what they're trying to prevent - then you can get pessimistic."
Change
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