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.
The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies.
We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead.
Let new India arise out of peasants' cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper.
Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
The brightest star on a cloudless night_x000D_ _x000D_ Some kind of miracle, almost empty sky..._x000D_ _x000D_ Just as the bite of the blade wakes the absent mind_x000D_ _x000D_ There's time to dream and there's time to open your eyes
'God put the rainbow in the clouds, not just in the sky'... It is wise to realize we already have rainbows in our clouds, or we wouldn't be here. If the rainbow is in the clouds, then in the worst of time, there is the possibility of seeing hope... We can say 'I can be a rainbow in the cloud for someone yet to be.' That may be our calling.
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