Human beings have two core impulses. First, the impulse to be selfish, to conquer. But we also have, in my belief, an equally powerful impulse to appreciate, support, and nurture one another. Which impulse wins out depends on what we’re fighting for.
Author: Greg Epstein | Source: Vox | Subjects: Insight, Life & Society, Psychology | Behavior
In the very act of giving I experience my strength, my wealth, my power. […] Giving is more joyous than receiving, not because it is a deprivation, but because in the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness.
Author: Erich Fromm | Subjects: Life & Society, Psychology | Behavior
If we’re ever gonna see a rainbow, we have to stand a little rain.
Author: Nitty Gritty Dirt Band | Subjects: Attitude, Concepts, Life & Society, Pain & Suffering, Psychology | Behavior
Family isn’t always blood. It’s the people in your life who want you in theirs; the ones who accept you for who you are. The ones who would do anything to see you smile and who love you no matter what.
Author: Unknown | Subjects: Family & Friends, Life & Society
Forgiveness doesn’t come with a debt.
Author: Mary Chapin Carpenter | Subjects: Concepts, Life & Society, Pain & Suffering, Personal Improvement
Control is an illusion. It’s seductive because it gives a feeling of power. Something to hold on to. So it becomes addictive.
Authors: Lee G. Bolman, Terrence E. Deal | Subjects: Life & Society, Psychology | Behavior
On life’s journey, we pass guideposts every day. Mostly we don’t notice. Tragedy is the author of hope. Crisis brings us face to face with our soul.
Authors: Lee G. Bolman, Terrence E. Deal | Subject: Life & Society
For in revery you cannot rise above your achievements nor fall lower than your failures.
Author: Kahlil Gibran | Subjects: Insight, Life & Society
Every step forward in technological progress […] effectively transfers our dependence upon other human beings to dependence upon machines and, therefore, unavoidably constricts yet further the direct flow of understanding and sympathy between people.
Author: E.J. Mishan | Subjects: Communication, Life & Society, Math & Science
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Author: Maya Angelou | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things.
Author: Amelia Earhart | Subject: Life & Society
If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.
Author: Lao Tzu | Subjects: Insight, Life & Society
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
Author: J.K. Rowling | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Life & Society
Judging a person does not define who they are. It defines who you are.
Author: Unknown | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning, but without understanding.
Author: Louis Brandeis | Subjects: Concepts, Freedom | Liberty, Life & Society, Politics & Public Policy
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
Author: Dorothy Parker | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.
Author: Dalai Lama | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement
Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Life & Society, Personal Improvement
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
Author: Indira Gandhi | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Author: Gandhi | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Life & Society, Personal Improvement