Quotes by Wayne Visser

“Let us choose hope because it is grounded in the possibility for change.”

“Being positive is a more effective and satisfying way to be in the world.”

“Dreams remind us that anything is possible.”

“Every time we dare to dream and believe in the impossible, we are flying.”

“Hope is an action verb – a way of seeing and being and having an impact in the world.”

“As long as the anticipated event is in the future, everything is still possible.”

“Faith means knowing the potential of people to grow, situations to change and nature to regenerate.”

“Hope is seeing the light in spite of the shadows, and faith is trusting the unknown despite the dangers.”

“Sunrise is a mirror of our inner radiance and a potent symbol of hope renewed.”

“Let us always be optimistic that we can choose life.”

“In dark times, it is often the chance to begin again which helps us to make it through.”

“Hope is not blind optimism or naïve fantasy.”

“Hope knows that people are resilient and resourceful.”

“Optimism is about believing in people, not a prophecy about the future.”

“Even when circumstances are bleak, we can still choose how we respond.”

“Constructive change is more possible than we dare to believe, but it all hinges on a change in perception.”

“We do, literally, create our future, limited only by the boundaries of our imagination.”

“Hope is a way of being in the world.”

“Hope is not the same as denial.”

“Even when we think we are stuck, or doing nothing, we are seeding new ideas and building up energy for the next moment of change.”

“Like a seed, germination and growth happen in the cold and dark places.”

“Buds are a sign of renewal, life returning and potential yet to be fulfilled.”

“No one is going to save us – but we will save ourselves.”

“Most of us are caterpillars – and that’s okay, because it means we are on the journey to becoming butterflies.”

“Life is as magical or even miraculous as we allow it and perceive it to be.”

“Sometimes we need to believe in the impossible, to have faith in the unseen, and to trust that life is on our side.”

“In the face of adversity, creativity and solidarity flourish.”

“In times of doubt and destruction, of strain and struggle, it is important to have faith.”

“When the invisible currents of life chance to lift us up, we soar on bright wings with joy.”

“At best, life is about making things better.”

“All great things – ideas, actions, organisations, movements – began as seeds that were planted in fertile soil and watered until they became sprouts.”

“For those of us who are trying to change the world – or even a small part of the world – acceptance is one of our biggest challenges.”

“Change only happens when our motive to change is stronger than the inertia of our habits, culture and beliefs.”

“Experimentation is the most powerful way to learn.”

“Many things in life are a marathon, not a sprint – and that is especially true of making change happen.”

“We all want to thrive in the future, but first we will have to survive.”

“Everything we think, or believe, or value, changes the world around us.”

“Paradigmatic change happens when an individual challenges assumptions and changes worldviews.”

“We are moving from an ‘either-or’ one-size-fits-all world to a ‘both-and’ strength-in-diversity world.”

“As human beings, our lives are all about change – about growth and development.”

“We all want to change the world, and the first step is deciding where to begin.”

“Shifting the volume and weight of what lies below the surface – our habits, attitudes, beliefs and values – is the real secret to making change happen.”

“Resilience is not a strategy, but an ability – one which is shaped and tempered in the fire of extreme experience.”

“The sustainability agenda is driven as much by emotions and perceptions as by factual realities.”

“The time has come to shake off our mechanical, militaristic thinking of yesterday, in favour of the natural, organic wisdom of tomorrow.”

“Idealism and realism are often counterpoised, yet we need both if we are to promote systemic change.”

“To be radical therefore is to work at the level of systems change.”

“With knowledge comes the power to change.”

“In a world of convention, being unconventional takes courage.”

“We are all change agents in our own right.”

“Radicals are the root of all progress.”

“While it is vital to keep fighting for the causes of justice and sustainability – and celebrating progress when we make it – we should never expect to be “done”.”

“Like the yin-yang symbol, each problem contains the seed of its solution, and each solution seeds another problem.”

“The decisions we make and the actions we take in the coming years will determine whether nature, society, and the economy break down or break through.”

“Progress is never straightforward, and the learning curve is never smooth.”

“The walls of risk rise all about us, but there are also windows of opportunity.”

“In social systems, there is always a decision window when our actions make a big difference in determining the outcome.”

“As in nature, so in life and business: we are forever in a fierce tango with Shiva, creator and destroyer; what Joseph Schumpeter called creative destruction.”

“We should never expect those who benefit from the status quo to take a lead in changing it.”

“The current tells us our direction of progress; the waves are the frothy surf of changing tides.”

“Without strong motives, change always fails.”

“Leaders enable us to achieve together what would have been impossible alone – for leadership is the art of synergy.”

“Leaders allow us to see possibilities that were not on our horizon – for leadership is the gift of visioning.”

“Leaders encourage us to stretch to reach our potential – for leadership is the practice of empowerment.”

“Leadership is the ability to inspire individuals to act for the common good.”

“Leaders dedicate themselves to fulfilling the needs of their followers – for leadership is the calling of service.”

“Define your vision and purpose to give people something bigger to believe in.”

“We are all storytellers – and the better we are, the more impact we have in the world.”

“To be a leader in the regeneration revolution, you also need to regenerate yourself.”

“Responsibility is the choice we make to respond with care.”

“Taking responsibility is a way of taking ownership in our lives, of acknowledging our own hand in the shaping of destiny.”

“Responsibility is not a guarantee of success, but a commitment to trying.”

“Responsibility is literally what it says – our ability to respond.”

“To be responsible is to be proactive in the world, to be sensitive to the interconnections, and to be willing to do something constructive, as a way of giving back.”

“Being responsible for something means that we are entrusted with realising its potential, turning its promise into reality.”

“Responsibility asks no more of us than that we try our best, that we act in the highest and truest way we know.”

“Accepting too many responsibilities is, in fact, irresponsible – for it compromises our ability to respond.”

“Responsibility is the footprint we leave in the sand, the mark of our passage.”

“Unlocking change is not only about what you do, but also who you are; or more specifically, whether you are tapped into your own power.”

“The quality of the leadership that we experience and that we offer will determine whether we take the right path as a species—the path to breakdown, or the path to breakthrough.”

“Do few things but do them well is the maxim of responsibility.”

“We are all leaders and followers in different spheres of our lives.”

“Taking responsibility is an expression of confidence in our own abilities, a chance to test our own limits.”

“To be good leaders, we must be good followers also.”

“Responsibility is the gateway to achievement.”

“Responsibility is the antidote for victimhood.”

“Responsibility is the counterbalance to rights.”

“It takes strength and courage to know when to follow the advice of others, and when to lead from our own inner knowing; when to bend and when to stand firm.”

“Listening is a skill practised by all the great masters – great leaders listen to their followers, great artists listen to their muses, great mystics listen to their spirit guides.”

“Emotions beat intellect every time; we want to feel more than to think.”

“We should resist industrial words that frame the world as a giant machine with people and materials as replaceable parts.”

“Regeneration is allowing nature, society and the economy to all flourish together, rather than trading one off against the other.”

“Regeneration is about making sure that life on Earth, in all its glorious manifestations, not only survives, but thrives and fulfils its vast potential.”

“We are gambling on our climate future – and all of life depends on the outcome.”

“Unless we aim for nature regeneration, flourishing societies and prosperous economies, we are planning to fail.”

“To use a medical metaphor, regeneration is not a drug cure for a particular disease but rather the necessary shift to a healthy lifestyle.”

“Regeneration is about working with, rather than against, the complex living systems of which we are a part.”

“To understand regeneration, we need only look to nature.”

“Choosing life and living over death and decay is the essence of regeneration.”

“Renewable is not automatically the same as sustainable or regenerative.”

“As our planet’s life-support system begins to fail and our very survival as a species is brought into question, remember that our children and grandchildren will ask not what our generation said, but what it did.”

“The farmer must learn to dance with nature, rather than fight its elements.”

“Sustainability is about embracing something larger than ourselves, something awesome and inspiring.”

“Our economies are acting like lions who entertain the misguided belief that their appetite and food source is unlimited.”

“Persistence in nature is a vice; in circular products, it’s a virtue.”

“At its best sustainability is like a bridge between the present and the future.”

“The economy is nested within society, which itself exists within and is entirely dependent on nature.”

“The agro-industrial sector is feeding people and starving the planet.”

“Prevention is better than cure, and sustainable design is better than retrofitting.”

“Exponential growth in a finite system is unsustainable, and therefore doomed to fail.”

“Regeneration is what animates life on earth.”

“The failure of sustainability is a failure to recognise our essential interconnectedness.”

“Destroying the web of life will ultimately lead to our own demise.”

“Sooner or later, all companies have to go beyond sustainability to regeneration.”

“Natural climate solutions already exist – and they don’t cost the Earth; quite the opposite.”

“Sometimes lasting forever, which is what ‘sustainable’ means, is the last thing we really want.”

“Viewed from the Earth’s perspective, humans are the out-of-control virus.”

“Nature is on the ropes, bruised and battered by dumb agriculture and dumber economics.”

“In nature, unlimited physical growth is nowhere to be seen.”

“If we keep selling sustainability as a burden, we will lose the battle for hearts and minds.”

“In overshoot, we start eating into our natural capital stocks, rather than living off renewable interest.”

“The most powerful and effective action we can take is to step back and give nature space and time to recover.”

“Seasons are a metaphor for our changeability, a chalice for our heart’s quest, a scripture for our soul’s journey.”

“The reason that nature is such a profound wellspring of meaning is that, as Emerson puts it, a ‘ray of relation’ passes between us and all other living things.”

“Flowers are a reminder of spring’s eternal hope and life’s unconditional beauty.”

“Nature works in rhythms and so do we; after all, we are part of nature.”

“Like our spirit, wind is invisible, yet we feel its effect.”

“The more we learn about nature’s wonders, the more we are rediscovering sentience.”

“The more we learn about the complex web of life, the more awestruck it leaves us.”

“It is comforting that there is order in the apparent chaos of life, and in that order, beauty too.”

“We should be placing ourselves in the web of life, rather than at the apex.”

“To care about nature or people, first we need to know about them.”

“We are all part of the web of life, and the more we tug at its threads, the more we realize that everything is connected.”

“For too long, humans have been at war with nature—aiming to dominate and subjugate, to control and curtail, to tame and train out its wildness.”

“Nature is dominated by cooperative, symbiotic relationships that weave together into a complex, dynamic balance.”

“When our world is dark and grey, flowers bring the sun and the rainbow.”

“Nature’s space is humbling and uplifting, for we are both insignificant and indispensable.”

“Nature is fluid; it flows and grows.”

“Nature is not very efficient, but that can make it more effective.”

“Life on earth is a grand experiment in partnership.”

“The most powerful source of metaphors is nature.”

“We were all born to be wild and tricked into being tame.”

“A single flower or water lily is a microcosmos of swirling colours; the bark on a tree reveals a rugged terrain of textures.”

“We should never be without flowers in our lives.”

“We are drawn to seasonal metaphors because the seasons are reflected in us.”

“We can rely on the seasons to always be there for us – as an inspiration and a comfort, as a teacher and a friend.”

“Wildlife is intimately in tune with the cycles of life – the rhythms of the sun and the moon, the changing of the seasons and the inevitability of birth and death.”

“Rain replenishes our body, stimulates our mind and quenches our spirit.”

“Nature is rich in bounty, full of precious treasure, generous rewards and – in accordance with the Latin root of the word – pure goodness.”

“Sometimes nature is all the magic we need.”

“People become numb to the incredible beauty and critical importance of the environment when they are surrounded by cities of concrete, artificial light and sterile air.”

“Trust in business comes from investing in long-term relationships, rather than attempting to buy positive opinions with one-off sponsorships and charitable activities.”

“Our quest is for a new way of doing business—a kind of alchemy in which we symbolically transform the base elements of moneymaking into the valuable gold of meaning-creation.”

“Tomorrow's businesses will run on the principle of giving and sharing, rather than profit maximisation.”

“Business is a means of human and community development and not an end in itself.”

“Purpose is about business recapturing its original mission of serving society.”

“Let us make sure that, in the battle of generosity versus money, generosity wins hands down.”

“Our economic and business language mistakenly suggests that predatory behaviour is imperative to survive and thrive in the marketplace.”

“We are often expected to keep the very qualities that make us fully human out of the workplace – our emotions, intuition, dreams, fears, family and community concerns.”

“Business is the grand poem of our age, the meta-rhyme of our world, the creative story of our civilization.”

“We are building nothing less than a new form of capitalism – one that serves society and sustains the planet.”

“In business, as in nature, competition is the exception and cooperation and symbiotic relationships are the rule.”

“Success that breeds self-indulgence, arrogance and complacency is a one-season wonder.”

“Why are so many workplaces places where the human spirit goes to die?”

“We need to transform our work spaces from sterile mausoleums into living ecosystems.”

“If we design intelligently, we can have products with positive impacts, so the more we consume, the better the world becomes.”

“We need a new economics with a human face and planetary perspective.”

“Working without clear hierarchy is not easier, but it is more entrepreneurial and fulfilling.”

“Like weeds, entrepreneurs are tough and tenacious; they never give up and often grow despite inhospitable conditions.”

“Sustainability is the new frontline in the war for talent.”

“Concentration of wealth and power is never good.”

“Can we finally admit that business has a more noble purpose than making money?”

“Investing in a sustainable future is like going to the dentist: a little painful now, so we can smile later.”

“The only way to sort out the sustainability pretenders from the pioneers is to look at their product portfolio.”

“The fossil fuel sector is morally bankrupt; will financial bankruptcy follow?”

“The point is not to try to make things new again, but rather to make them functional, to revive and extend their life.”

“Business and the economy exist to serve the welfare of society – to provide the goods and services we need to maximise our quality of life.”

“We need to think globally, but that is no longer enough – we also need to act locally.”

“Until we put a price on social and environmental impacts, the market will continue to undervalue social and natural capital.”

“We must radically redesign production and consumption to support our quality of life, while giving nature the time and space to recover and thrive.”

“In a complex system, connectivity creates innovation; so-called emergent behaviour – capabilities and behaviours impossible for the individual parts.”

“Dignity is the ability to recognise prejudice for the false god that it is – and choose instead to affirm each person’s inherent value as a human being.”

“Let’s celebrate the tireless workers and hidden heroes, the resilient communities and invisible caregivers.”

“If we care about the future, we must resist isolationism in all its forms.”

“Anyone who thinks that tackling racism and social injustice is not part of the sustainability agenda really does not understand sustainability.”

“Responsibility is a form of sharing, a way of recognising that we’re all in this together.”

“If we enjoy the right to freedom, it is because we accept our responsibility not to harm or harass others.”

“Unless you’re planning to jump overboard, we’re in this boat together.”

“Dignity is the worth we bestow on ourselves and others when we affirm our common humanity.”

“Generosity is being willing to give what we have least of – be it money, or time, or patience.”

“If we are to care for people who are vulnerable, animals that are suffering or a planet that is threatened, we must begin by kindling empathy.”

“Ensuring dignity for all is the saving grace of humanity.”

“At the heart of dignity is the unshakeable belief that no person is better, or worse, than another.”

“The worst embodiments of evil in the history of the world were all attempts to strip people of their basic human dignity, their inherent worth as people, their intrinsic value as citizens.”

“No one is safe until everyone is safe.”

“Wherever possible, charity should be an anonymous act of generosity that protects the dignity of the receiver.”

“We say we care for our children, but our actions betray us.”

“Injustice and the abuse of power are at the root of many of the sustainability crises we face.”

“Looking at humanity, we see our splendid diversity and our essential unity; our incredible resilience in the face of hardship and our unbridled joy at being alive.”

“Sanctuaries remind us that compassion can still triumph over cruelty.”

“We only care for others when we feel empathy.”

“You can be generous with your donations, your attention or your love.”

“Generosity taps into one of the most powerful human drives – the desire to make a positive difference.”

“The whistleblower is our classic superhero, who risks everything – career, reputation, freedom, even life – to expose corruption, unethical activities and the abuse of power.”

“We should freely share the very best of what we have to offer the world, for prosperity thrives on exchange.”

“Not even an island is truly an island – all land is connected, even if under the ocean.”

“When we understand why and how people and things are the way they are, hatred and prejudice simply cannot exist.”

“Are we adding to the sum of life, or subtracting from it?”

“Conflict – whether between people, nations or religions – is always the failure to see through the eyes of the other.”

“We must make diversity an action not an adjective.”

“Let us all strive to love all the children of all species for all time.”

“Sport is a better peacemaker than politics or religion.”

“We are conditioned to believe that we can buy beauty, freedom and love, but do we know how to be beautiful, free and lovable?”

“We are all searching for meaning in life: an answer to the eternal ‘why?’ The good news: we can and do create our own meaning.”

“We should be looking in the mirror and not seeing ‘ugly’, ‘uninteresting’ or ‘slow achiever’, but rather ‘beautiful’, ‘fascinating’ and ‘in transformation’.”

“If we value family and friends, let intimacy and love be the hallmarks of our success.”

“A craft is also something that you love doing for its own sake, where you derive joy from the process and take pride in the outcome.”

“Our desire to reach, to learn, to strive and to achieve is what gives us energy in life; what fuels our daily efforts to keep going.”

“At school and work we learn efficiency, but where do we learn sufficiency?”

“Making our lives personally meaningful requires that we pursue something beyond ourselves.”

“What can be more joyous than making a positive contribution in the world, or making a difference in someone else’s life?”

“We are all radicals just waiting for our moment of destiny, listening for our calling to a higher purpose, wishing for the courage to do the right thing.”

“We are all reaching for that something beyond our grasp, for our unique contribution, our personal bliss, our gift to humanity and ourselves.”

“Rituals are the patterns that give our lives order, the routines through which we create structure, and the pathways to meaning.”

“We may not all think of ourselves as gardeners, but every day we make choices that either help or hinder the emergence of something new.”

“We live and learn, we try and fail, we stretch and grow.”

“Live in the moment – not recklessly, but with attention and intention.”

“We are encouraged to aspire by wanting more rather than to be happy by needing less.”

“The power of rituals is not in their literal acts, but their symbolic significance; they imbue our lives with meaning.”

“An often overlooked definition of success is the ability to remain true to ourselves.”

“We need to breathe to live, but breathing is not the grand purpose of our existence.”

“Changing our life is all about changing our habits.”

“Paradoxically, by making our actions unconscious, habits allow us to be superconscious.”

“We always have a choice, and each choice always has consequences.”

“Our habits can trap us, even when we are free.”

“Work-life balance assumes work and life are separate and can be weighed on imaginary scales; they aren't and they can't.”

“Time well spent is rewarded with rich memories.”

“More often than not, the things we value most cannot be bought.”

“At some point, we all discover that we can suffer and go on, that we can experience setbacks and still find a way home.”

“Through sport, we learn that hard work is rewarded with results, but also that the best team doesn’t always win.”

“We can choose whether to play fair or dirty, and whether or not to be humble in victory and gracious in defeat.”

“Life is fragile and precious, and we have so little time on this earth; therefore, let us treasure and celebrate life.”

“Friendship is the bond between hearts and the bridge between souls.”

“In the tangled maze of life, try to be with people that you love and who love you.”

“Our lives are full of the tender shoots of love, which we choose to either nurture or neglect.”

“Love is a heartfelt intention to share the fullness of our being with another person, who wishes to do the same.”

“Love is the name we give to the nameless, the shape we give to the shapeless, the universal heart with many faces.”

“We may recognise love instantly, but practising love takes time and patience, commitment and tenacity.”

“Love is trusting even when we have been let down before, having faith even when we have been given reason to doubt.”

“Love is the essence of the religious teachings of the world’s many faiths, and the motivation behind every fight for justice in history.”

“Love is a commitment to freedom – to explore new vistas together.”

“Partnership is the journey towards being better together than apart.”

“Love is a journey, not a destination; a path of discovery, not a once-off revelation.”

“Friendship is the journey of discovering the miracle of another’s being.”

“Many of life’s best moments – the ones we will treasure later on – are moments of togetherness.”

“Love should free us to be ourselves, together.”

“Love is not a promise to be someone who lives up to others’ expectations, nor is it a vow to be perfect, or unchanging.”

“Love is an oasis in the desert of uncaring, a wellspring where we quench our thirst for belonging.”

“Friendship begins as a delicate thread between two people, which, with time, is first woven into a thin chord, and then plaited into a strong rope.”

“Friends listen when we need to talk, comfort us in our tears, and celebrate with us in our moments of joy.”

“Touch is the language of the heart.”

“Love is many things, but simple is not one of them.”

“Love is bringing flavour to another’s life, making their journey more interesting by adding spice to the mix.”

“The trail of light which is friendship knows no end.”

“Friendship is the exception to the rule of shallow relationships.”

“It all comes down to love – which is easy to say and hard to do.”

“Love is appreciating the worth of another.”

“Love may begin as a fragile bloom, but it matures into a sturdy tree.”

“Where there is perfect understanding, there can be none other than perfect love.”

“Love begins where selfishness ends.”

“Not only is touch one of the five senses, it is the one we cannot do without.”

“We all have the power of the healing touch, which is often the first step on the road to recovery in an ailing relationship.”

“Just as we can grow deeper in love, it is equally possible to fall gradually out of love.”

“The world is complex and life is a mystery, so let us not praise leaders who dumb it down into simple ‘truths’.”

“If we have good health, people who love us, a roof over our heads and food to eat, decent work and friends who care, we have reasons for gratitude.”

“The Taoist way is the way of listening, of tuning into life’s changes, and being ready to change in response.”

“Tranquility is about tuning into a different experience of time – slowing down, reconnecting to nature’s rhythms, watching the passage of dawn-to-day and dusk-to-night.”

“We learn, through painful experience, that we can love and lose and still go on to find happiness and love again.”

“An epiphany is seeing the same world again, but differently this time.”

“What makes it easier to endure the darkness – and to find the sun again – is the nurturing love of friends and family.”

“Silence is the fertile bed in which seeds of inspiration germinate, the dark humus which feeds new life.”

“Wisdom lies in knowing what we can change and what we should accept.”

“When chaos enters our lives, it is good to remember that there is a deep underlying harmony in the universe.”

“In life, embrace the spirit of the Japanese art of kintsugi, where the cracks in old pottery are filled with gold-dusted lacquer to highlight, rather than hide, its imperfections.”

“As much as we like to believe we are rational thinkers, as humans we are most fundamentally emotional beings.”

“History shows us that science is always incomplete and very seldom synonymous with wisdom.”

“We have striven to become masters over time, yet we are more slaves to time today than ever before.”

“Doubt is the shield we carry through the battlefields of life.”

“Loss is a stone that, one day, we must all carry in our hearts.”

“We live our lives in real-time, with no option of pressing the pause button, but memories allow us to rewind and reflect.”

“Ageing is the hard lesson of admitting our limitations and accepting the help of others.”

“No two accounts of time are ever the same, for we are the instruments on which time plays its symphony.”

“Admitting ignorance is a step on the path to wisdom.”

“Time is rare; the ultimate non-renewable resource.”

“No matter what happens, no matter how much you get hurt in your life, there is always a way to get through it.”

“The purpose of doubt is not to paralyse, but to catalyse.”

“Ignorance may be bliss, but knowledge is a well of discovery that never runs dry.”

“Our fears and the struggle to overcome them are the very grit from which we make pearls of our daily living.”

“The sacred is in the profane, the extraordinary is in the ordinary.”

“Silence is not an enemy to be stalked, but a friend to be discovered.”

“The past and the future are both illusions; the present is our only true reality.”

“Our life will never be more (or less) perfect than it is now, if we see it right.”

“To live is to walk the path of creative tension.”

“Knowing that we don’t know is a prerequisite for enlightenment.”

“In times of crisis, art also reminds us that life is beautiful, that solidarity is powerful and that selfless behaviour is to be celebrated.”

“Dreams are wormholes in time, allowing us to slip into parallel dimensions of reality, to glimpse how our lives might be different, to imagine what spectacular secrets the universe may contain.”

“The value of art is in the act of creation itself, the journey it takes you on and what you learn about yourself.”

“We are soft-wired for storytelling – and that is why parables are so powerful.”

“One of life’s greatest and most beautiful mysteries is music.”

“Music, with or without words, is one of the most powerful forms of storytelling.”

“Every work of art is a slice of life, a freeze-frame in time, a snapshot of reality.”

“Films reflect back to us our inner life: our wishes and suffering, our fantasies and disappointments, our hopes and fears.”

“Dreams are the swirling smoke of our spirit's fire.”

“Every book is a philosopher’s stone, a rite of alchemy which changes us.”

“We must learn to see old worlds through new eyes, and new worlds through old eyes.”

“Music is the key to our souls.”

“Books are power in our hands and wisdom in our heads.”

“Myths are not lies; they are meta-narratives that reflect, guide and inspire human experience.”

“Suspending disbelief is not nearly as powerful as believing.”

“All art has the power to transform.”

“Art is the mirror in which we see our truest self reflected.”

“Dancing is not an instruction by the mind, but an expression by the heart.”

“Dance is the quintessence of harmony – harmony between time and space, music and movement, beat and step.”

“Music is the audible outer manifestation of our inaudible inner voice.”

“Like the river, music not only flows but tells the story of its passage.”

“Books are passion in our hearts and levity in our souls.”

“When we learn to read, we forge a magical key to a vault of unimaginable hoarded wealth.”

“Dreaming is our more honest way of being – an uncensored state, where thoughts manifest as actions and emotions flare as colour.”

“We all long for enchantment, for a world of magic.”

“Enchantment comes from consciously inviting the light of love to shine through in every facet of life.”

“Hyperbole is the lens through which theatre clarifies the world.”

“Sometimes when crying is too painful, we are given the gift of laughter.”

“One dose of laughter is all you need to get high – and it comes free of side effects, satisfaction guaranteed.”

“Artists remind us that we dream the world into existence.”

“Anyone who speaks artfully about the human condition, life’s journey and the state of the world is, in truth, a poet.”

“We make many journeys in our life – and all of them give us clues to the journey of life itself.”

“We are all travellers in this world, in search of purpose, beauty, knowledge and love.”

“In life, you are being asked to choose between different doors, without really knowing what is behind each one.”

“The quantity of our life is measured by fullness – the amount of experience we pack into our allotted time.”

“Home is that place we return to and know for the first time, where we come full circle.”

“We think of home as a place – and often it is – but when we reflect more deeply, we find that home is built around relationships.”

“The quality of our life is measured by space – the amount of clutter we manage to let go of in our allotted time.”

“Home is where we feel most comfortable, where we can be ourselves, stripped of all our masks, without the pretensions we wear for the world outside.”

“Flight is a dance of collaboration, between nature and engineering; a song of harmony, between will and intuition; a stanza of rhythm, between ourselves and those who believe that we can fly.”

“Flight is the journey beyond our limitations.”

“The lack of space in our life reflects our appetite for having rather than experiencing, for doing rather than being.”

“Home is the tribe to which we belong.”

“Every time we let our imagination float and our creativity glide, we are flying.”

“Home is wherever we can be ourselves, without fear or pretence.”

“Sooner or later we discover that the map is not the road, that the best laid plans can unravel, and that strangers we meet can become friends and more.”

“Treasure hunts remind us to search for beauty in the ordinary, to find value in the trivial and to relish the excitement of discovery.”

“What distinguishes a home from a house is people.”

“We are drawn to our home because it is a place of rest, of refuge, a calm eye in the midst of the storm.”

“Every time we overcome barriers and transcend thresholds, we are flying.”

“Let us be curious and open, humble and observant.”

“Wherever we are, we take our thoughts with us – our hopes and anxieties, our affections and scars.”

“In the wild, for a few precious days, the world slows down and life gets simple again.”

“There are golden nuggets we are sometimes lucky to find along life’s dusty pathways – the real treasures of existence.”

“Shrinking against the landscape, we swell inside with pleasure.”

“At its best, travel challenges, or at least broadens, our views on the world.”

“It is always the letting go – the leap of faith – that takes us on the paths of learning and adventure.”

“Make space a welcome guest in our tightly sequenced schedule of busyness, a gentle interruption to the just-in-time operation we call our lives.”

“Finding a path that is interesting, satisfying and that you feel passionate about is a slow process of discovery.”

“Home is where we feel centred, grounded, like the bush trail sign for home – a circle with a dot in the middle.”

“Home is whenever we can be with those we love, sharing life’s moments.”