Category: Sustainability Quotes

Be patient is part of the series of Sustainability Quotes that I create to hopefully help DEI practitioners get through such a tough and demanding role. This was a photo I took (with a filter). I put this together as I finally let go of doing operational and management work, because I will be now focusing…

Let go of things that no longer take you forward is part of the series of Sustainability Quotes that I create to hopefully help DEI practitioners get through such a tough and demanding role. This photo came about as I was walking around a neighbourhood while waiting for the library to open. I couldn’t help…

Minimise situations that stress and deflate you is part of the series of Sustainability Quotes that I create because I know that working within Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is an emotionally difficult journey that can lead to burnout. I wrote this phrase as I was going through a very stressful time, yet I was also…

  Each day a bird would shelter in the withered branches of a tree that stood in the middle of a vast deserted plain. One day a whirlwind uprooted the tree, forcing the poor bird to fly a hundred miles in search of shelter — till it finally came to a forest of fruit-laden trees.…

You have been hypnotised to think a tiger is in the room. Break the spell. There is nothing else needed to be radically changed. The full original quote from Anthony de Mello’s One Minute Wisdom: INACTION This is how the Master once explained the fact that Enlightenment came not through effort but through understanding: “Imagine…

This is the first post of many under the “Sustainability Quotes” to balance the need for change with the need to look after yourself.   Fall in love with taking care of yourself. Fall in love with becoming the best version of yourself, but with patience, with compassion and respect to your own journey. –…