Www.grainesdechangement.com/citations.htm. "N'attendez pas le jugement dernier - il a lieu tous les jours. " Albert Camus "Si tu veux construire un bateau, ne rassemble pas tes hommes et femmes pour leur donner des ordres, pour expliquer chaque détail, pour leur dire où trouver chaque chose... Si tu veux construire un bateau, fais naître dans le cœur de tes hommes et femmes le désir de la mer. " Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "Ceux qui pensent qu'il est impossible d'agir sont généralement interrompus par ceux qui agissent.
" "Il n'y a personne qui soit né sous une mauvaise étoile, il n'y a que des gens qui ne savent pas lire le ciel. " "Celui qui vient au monde pour ne rien troubler ne mérite ni égards ni patience. " "Nul besoin de faire de la Terre un paradis : elle en est un. "La chance est un hasard, le bonheur est une vocation. " "Le difficile, c'est ce qui peut être fait tout de suite. "Pour ce qui est de l'avenir, il ne s'agit pas de le prévoir mais de le rendre possible.
" "La vie est trop courte pour qu'on soit pressé. " La nature d’une nouvelle entreprise » Et pourquoi pas des citations? Je travaille ces jours-ci à développer un cours destiné à des professionnels qui auront à effectuer de la supervision dans un contexte d’autoapprentissage. J’ai prévu, au retour de chaque pause, de projeter une citation et de laisser les participants y réfléchir quelques minutes avant d’en discuter. En recherchant des citations intéressantes et pertinentes, je suis tombé sur le recueil de citations du site Graines de changement . Parmi les citations qui y sont présentées, plusieurs ont fait écho aux thèmes qui guident mes pensées et mes gestes ces temps-ci. C’est incroyable de voir comment les préoccupations de l’humain restent sensiblement les mêmes à travers les époques (à moins que ce ne soit notre tendance à chercher l’approbation dans les paroles des autres qui nous laisse croire ceci).
Environnement et développement durable "Avons-nous besoin de sauver cette espèce de condor ? Politique et entreprenariat Travail et choix de vie Éducation et apprentissage. Career Advice: Give - Emily Esfahani Smith. Givers focus on others, takers on themselves, and matchers care most about fairness. Studies show that most professional success, not just satisfaction, goes to givers. Akintunde Akinleye/Reuters In 1990, Jon Huntsman, Sr. made a business decision that most in corporate America would probably have called insane.
He was intensely negotiating the biggest business deal of his life with Charles Miller Smith, the head of a British chemical company. Deep into the negotiations over the acquisition, Smith's wife died. She had been suffering from terminal cancer. It was unfortunate, but business is business and the negotiation was incomplete. But he didn't. "I decided the fine points of the last 20 percent of the deal would stand as they were proposed," he later wrote. When people are stressed out, their first instinct is to protect themselves -- or to retreat into a taker mentality. Huntsman is what organizational psychologist Adam Grant calls, in his provocative new book, a "giver. " How to Find Your Purpose and Do What You Love. “Find something more important than you are,” philosopher Dan Dennett once said in discussing the secret of happiness, “and dedicate your life to it.”
But how, exactly, do we find that? Surely, it isn’t by luck. I myself am a firm believer in the power of curiosity and choice as the engine of fulfillment, but precisely how you arrive at your true calling is an intricate and highly individual dance of discovery. Still, there are certain factors — certain choices — that make it easier. Every few months, I rediscover and redevour Y-Combinator founder Paul Graham’s fantastic 2006 article, How to Do What You Love. What you should not do, I think, is worry about the opinion of anyone beyond your friends. More of Graham’s wisdom on how to find meaning and make wealth can be found in Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age.
Alain de Botton, modern philosopher and creator of the “literary self-help genre”, is a keen observer of the paradoxes and delusions of our cultural conceits. The Holstee Manifesto: Lifecycle Video. 21 Inspiring Quotes for Social Entrepreneurs. Being an entrepreneur can be lonely. Being a social entrepreneur can be lonely and disheartening. There are social entrepreneurs around the globe (see here, here, and here) who are striving to make the world a better place, but the community is highly fragmented. This can equate to a very lonely path. Please don’t give up. Social Entrepreneurship “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity.
“Social entrepreneurs are not content just to give a fish or teach how to fish. “Social entrepreneurs have existed throughout history. “We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another. “I’m encouraging young people to become social business entrepreneurs and contribute to the world, rather than just making money. Inspiration “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. Perseverance “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. Challenges. Tu es, donc je suis : Une déclaration de dépendance: Amazon.fr: Satish Kumar, Frédéric Lenoir, Karine Reignier. Connecting Dots With Gandhi | I Say Organic.
There is no doubt in our mind that Gandhi would have eaten organic fruits and vegetables. Chemically grown produce wouldn’t have really been available during his time anyway, but even then we can draw a few connections between Gandhian philosophy and organic farming. While Indian citizens today may not feel like Gandhi’s values apply to their daily lives, we recognize and admire his commitment to the philosophy that led his. This week we think about some of his core values and how they are very much relevant today in this field. Swadeshi (Contributing to the Local Economy) “Swadeshi is that sprit in us which requires us to serve our immediate neighbors before others, and to use things produced in our neighborhood in preference to those more remote.
This one might be more obvious than the others because one of the tenets of the organic movement is eating locally and supporting local farmers. Asteya (Non- Stealing) “Non-stealing does not mean merely not to steal. Ahimsa (Non-violence) S'entourer des gens différents de soi mais surtout meilleurs à soi. Je-Dis de Gbeton --- Volume III --- Numéro 8 --- 21 mars 2009 © photo : fnac.com Parce que « qui se ressemble s'assemble », on aime bien s’entourer de gens qui sont de la même condition sociale, de la même génération ou de la même vivacité d’esprit que soi.
Pourtant « qui s'assemble se ressemble » aussi. C’est pour cela que je dis : « Entourez-vous de gens différents de vous, de personnes ayant plus de qualités que vous pour davantage d’accomplissement ». Si l'on vous aviez un seul souhait à voir réaliser pour une vie comblée, choisiriez-vous de devenir millionnaire, d'être célèbre, physiquement beau, excellent dans votre domaine d'activité, très intelligent ou encore n'avoir que des personnes extraordinaires autour de vous ? Bien que toutes ces réponses soient alléchantes, Lilian Glass, auteure du livre Comment S'entourer De Gens Extraordinaires (Les Editions De L'homme, 2005) révèle que le choix le plus astucieux est sans contredit le dernier. Comment s'entourer de gens extraordinaires. Why Good Friends Make You Happy. Phillip Moeller for US News The gravitational pull of individual friendships can have an enormous cumulative effect on the quality of our lives.
With growing numbers of people living alone, either by choice or circumstance, friendships can occupy the emotional space that other people fill with spouses or significant others. Friends can link us to broader social networks and help enrich our lives. At the end of the day, a friend can be the emotional oasis that makes all the difference. "Friends are what make us uniquely human," says James Fowler, professor of medical genetics and political science at the University of California at San Diego. "There is no other species that interacts so widely with other members of their species. After a career studying different types of relationships and their impact on well-being and health, Harvard relationship expert Lisa Berkman has developed a broad view of the relationships people need in order to thrive.
Antonucci has a different view. To Find Happiness, Forget About Passion - Oliver Segovia. By Oliver Segovia | 12:05 PM January 13, 2012 Several years ago, a friend decided she wanted to follow her passion. She loved the liberal arts and academe. She was a talented graphic designer, a great writer, and was the president of a student club. But the prospect of working a nine-to-five job was never interesting. I can’t blame her. After all, ours is a millennial generation proselytized to pursue our dreams. Then the recession hit. It’s a poster tale for our times. Like myself, today’s twentysomethings were raised to find our dreams and follow them. Putting problems at the center of our decision-making changes everything. The good thing is that there are a lot of big problems to go by: climate change, sustainability, poverty, education, health care, technology, and urbanization in emerging markets. Develop situational awareness. Look into problems that affect you in a very personal way.
Connect with people working on big problems. Take time off and travel. 12 Things Happy People Do Differently. Post written by: Marc Chernoff Email by Jacob Sokol of Sensophy “I’d always believed that a life of quality, enjoyment, and wisdom were my human birthright and would be automatically bestowed upon me as time passed.
I never suspected that I would have to learn how to live - that there were specific disciplines and ways of seeing the world I had to master before I could awaken to a simple, happy, uncomplicated life.” -Dan Millman Studies conducted by positivity psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky point to 12 things happy people do differently to increase their levels of happiness. I want to honor and discuss each of these 12 points, because no matter what part of life’s path we’re currently traveling on, these ‘happiness habits’ will always be applicable. Express gratitude. – When you appreciate what you have, what you have appreciates in value. Jacob Sokol is committed to living an extraordinary life. Photo by: Aurelio Asiain If you enjoyed this article, check out our new best-selling book.