"To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before. We must search out totally new ways to anchor ourselves, for all the old roots - religion, nation, community, family, or profession - are now shaking under the hurricane impact of the accelerative thrust. It is no longer resources that limit decisions, it is the decision that makes the resources."

-- Alvin Toffler

#Impact Quotes #Anchors Quotes #Roots Quotes

“Around you move many seas. It is impossible not to drown a little.”

Source : Sarah Manguso (2002). “The Captain Lands in Paradise: Poems”
“Im married to a white man, and then my daughter came out looking like the whitest white child with blonde hair and blue eyes. And Im like, Omigosh, now what am I going to do? She has my moms features and is lighter than my husband. And my boy is browner than I am. Brown eyes and really tan.”
“If you say in advance there is going to be a main candidate and then that doesn't count later, then that's going to be a highly problematic occurrence in a democracy.”
“When i started flirting with the hustle, failure became my ex, now I'm engaged to the game and married to success.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.
“The solution begins with a deeper transformation that must occur in each of us. I AM isn't as much about what you can do, as who you can be. And from that TRANSFORMATION OF BEING, action will naturally follow.”

Source : "It’s Time to Shift Into Your Heart-Gear" by Carolyn Ziel, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 20, 2011.
“What is reasoned has nothing to do with what is reasonable.”
“Unless a person has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous. A great occasion is worth to man exactly what his preparation enables him to make of it.”
“Life is whatever you make it, a heaven or hell on earth.”

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