When people gain income, they gain choice, and that is fundamental to dignity.
Jacqueline NovogratzRead
May each of you live lives of immersion. They won't necessarily be easy lives. But in the end, it is all that will sustain us.
Interpretation
This quote encourages deep engagement in life, recognizing that challenges may arise, but true fulfillment comes from immersion.
Jacqueline Novogratz's quote speaks to the importance of living fully and immersively, suggesting that a life of deep involvement and commitment may not always be easy. However, it is this very immersion in our experiences, relationships, and challenges that ultimately sustains and enriches our lives, leading to greater meaning and purpose.
In practice
In a motivational speech about embracing challenges on the journey to success.
When people gain income, they gain choice, and that is fundamental to dignity.
I've been working on issues of poverty for more than 20 years, and so it's ironic that the problem that and question that I most grapple with is how you actually define poverty. What does it mean?
The poor don't live in functional market economies as the rest of us do, but in political economies where corruption and broken systems extend from local government to moneylenders.
Each of us can work to change a small portion of events. And it's in the total of all those acts that the history of this generation will be written.
Don't let people tell you to do it this way. You are on the verge of figuring out hybrid models -- with companies and nonprofits, markets, government, crowd-sourced philanthropy. The capitalist system as we know it is not working.
Traditional charity and aid are never going to solve the problems of poverty.
And you have to remember that I came to America as an immigrant. You know, on a ship, through the Statue of Liberty. And I saw that skyline, not just as a representation of steel and concrete and glass, but as really the substance of the American Dream.
We fly; we dream in darkness; we devour heaven in bites too small to be measured.
I know you think this world is too dark to even dream in color, but Iβve seen flowers bloom at midnight. Iβve seen kites fly in gray skies and they were real close to looking like the sunrise, and sometime it takes the most wounded wings the most broken things to notice how strong the breeze is, how precious the flight.
Catch on fire and people will come for miles to see you burn.
From my earliest youth, I have known that while one is obliged to plan with care the stages of one's journey, one is entitled to dream, and keep dreaming, of its destination. A man may feel as old as his years yet as young as his dreams.
The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.
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