Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement
The way to love anything is to realize it might be lost.
Author: G. K. Chesterton | Subjects: Concepts, Love, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior
People are disturbed, not by things (that happen to them), but by the principles and opinions which they form concerning (those) things. When we are hindered, or disturbed, or grieved, let us never attribute it to others, but to ourselves; that is, to our own principles and opinions.
Author: Epictetus | Subjects: Insight, Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior
Putting aside the reality that no system, including our own, is really entirely meritocratic, meritocracies may be fairer and more efficient than some alternatives. But fair in an absolute sense? Think about it. A meritocracy is a system in which the people who are the luckiest in their health and genetic endowment; luckiest in terms of family support, encouragement, and, probably, income; luckiest in their … [ Read more ]
Author: Ben Bernanke | Source: The Atlantic | Subjects: Economics | Economy, Life & Society, Politics & Public Policy
The merit of a man is not in the knowledge he possesses, but in the effort he made to achieve it.
Author: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Life & Society
In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
Author: Confucius | Subjects: Life & Society, Politics & Public Policy
Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.
Author: Unknown | Subject: Relationships
Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.
Author: Nido Qubein | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
Author: George Washington | Subject: Relationships
Here’s the thing about inspiration: It has to be earned. Someone is inspiring not because they look at you with big eyes and ask you to find it in your heart to believe in their dream. It’s because they actually have a dream that’s worth getting excited about. And those dreams don’t come lightly. They come from blood, sweat, and tears. Inspiration is like love. … [ Read more ]
Author: Chris Anderson | Subjects: Concepts, Creativity and Innovation, Leadership, Life & Society
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: Insight, Life & Society, Personal Improvement
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
Author: Anaïs Nin | Subjects: Concepts, Love
Lo supe siempre. No hay nadie que aguante la libertad ajena; a nadie le gusta vivir con una persona libre. Si eres libre, ése es el precio que tienes que pagar: la soledad.
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I always knew. There is no one who can endure the freedom of others; nobody likes to live with a free person. If you are free, that is the price you have to … [ Read more ]
Author: Chavela Vargas | Subjects: Concepts, Freedom | Liberty, Life & Society, Relationships
The Habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. All History will convince you of this, and that wisdom and penetration are the fruits of experience, not the Lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the Heart, then those qualities which would otherways lay dormant, wake into … [ Read more ]
Author: Abigail Adams | Subjects: History, Life & Society, Personal Improvement
The ideologue believes that what is right works, but the pragmatist believes instead that what works is right.
Author: Mark Shields | Subjects: Insight, Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior
Stories matter. Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people but stories can also repair that broken dignity.
Author: Chimamanda Adichie | Source: TED | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Stories
The problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story. […] The consequence of the single story is this: it robs people of dignity. It makes our recognition of our equal humanity difficult. It emphasizes how we are different rather than how we are similar.
Author: Chimamanda Adichie | Source: TED | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior, Race Relations, Relationships
When you love something, it’s a bottomless pool of energy. That’s where the energy comes from. But you have to love it sincerely. Not because you’re going to make money from it, be famous, or get whatever you want to get. When you do it because you love it, then you can find yourself moving up and getting really good at something you wanted to … [ Read more ]
Author: Jerry Seinfeld | Subjects: Career, Concepts, Life & Society, Love, Personal Improvement
Big business has arguably become the most dominant force in many societies, subsuming the power of Church and State but not their responsibilities. As a result, the urgent human needs (for security, stability and spiritual nourishment) once met by those institutions must largely go begging.
Author: Benjamin Kessler | Subjects: Business, Life & Society, Religion
Theories of economics are built on the foundational belief that individuals are rational, well-informed and autonomous. But in practice, none of those things are true. For example, we’re far from autonomous — each person influences other people. In my reading and research […] I came to more of a determinist worldview that free will is overrated and our willpower is overstated. We’re actually much more … [ Read more ]
Author: Kevin Fishner | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Economics | Economy, Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior