Some people have a natural talent for [love], but the majority of us have to re-learn, to remember how to love, and everyone, without exception, needs to burn on the bonfire of past emotions, to relive certain joys and griefs, certain ups and downs, until they can see the connecting thread that exists behind each new encounter; because there is a connecting thread.
Author: Paulo Coelho | Subjects: Concepts, Love, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior
In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each of us responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel. It hurt when I lost each of the various men I fell in love with. Now, though, I am convinced that no one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having … [ Read more ]
Author: Paulo Coelho | Subjects: Concepts, Love, Relationships
Perhaps love really can transform someone, but despair does the job more quickly.
Author: Paulo Coelho | Subjects: Concepts, Love, Psychology | Behavior
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. Neither love without knowledge, nor knowledge without love can produce a good life.
Author: Bertrand Russell | Subjects: Concepts, Intelligence | Knowledge, Life & Society, Love, Personal Improvement
Great persons are not superior to us; they are exemplary, symbolic, or representative of us.
Author: Robert Richardson | Subjects: Insight, Life & Society, Personal Improvement
There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. You built a factory out there? Good for you.
But I want to be clear: you moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for; you hired workers the rest of us paid to educate; you were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces … [ Read more ]
Author: Elizabeth Warren | Subjects: Economics | Economy, Life & Society, Politics & Public Policy
The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity, answered, “Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present.; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future: he lives as if … [ Read more ]
Author: Dalai Lama | Subjects: Insight, Life & Society, Personal Improvement
The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
Author: Bruce Lee | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement
No really creative transformation can possibly be effected by human beings unless they are in the creative state of mind that is generally sensitive to the differences that always exist between the observed fact and any preconceived ideas, however noble, beautiful, and magnificent they may seem to be.
Author: David Bohm | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Insight, Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior
We argue with our biology, and the result of that argument is civilization.
Author: Charles Siebert | Subjects: Life & Society, Sociology | Anthropology
Whenever a social system — a company, or in this case a larger group of mainstream institutions — is disrupted, and the leaders have not developed an inner capacity for curiosity, compassion, and courage, then you will tend to see a closing of the mind and the heart, and a fanatical expression of will. You will see the amplification of prejudice, an increase in public … [ Read more ]
Author: Otto Scharmer | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Life & Society, Politics & Public Policy, Sociology | Anthropology
The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.
Author: Marlene Dietrich | Subjects: Insight, Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior
The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.
Author: Thucydides | Subjects: Life & Society, Military | War | Peace, Thought | Inquiry
Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.
Author: Fred Rogers | Subjects: Concepts, Love, Relationships
If confidence men operate outside the law, it must be remembered that they are not much further outside than many of our pillars of society who go under names less sinister.
Author: David W. Maurer | Subjects: Law | Legal, Life & Society
To judge a man merely by success is an abhorrent wrong; and if the people at large habitually so judge men, if they grow to condone wickedness because the wicked man triumphs, they show their inability to understand that in the last analysis free institutions rest upon the character of citizenship, and that by such admiration of evil they prove themselves unfit for liberty.
Author: Theodore Roosevelt | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Concepts, Ethics | Integrity | Morality, Life & Society, Politics & Public Policy, Psychology | Behavior
We have increasingly shifted our definitions of success from the immaterial to the material, from the interior to the exterior, from the private to the public. And in that shift, we have incurred a peculiar and perilous blindness to the moral and humanistic dimensions of success — to how being a good human being and a good member of a community, of a society, of … [ Read more ]
Author: Maria Popova | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Life & Society, Material Possessions, Personal Improvement, Success / Failure
Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Politics & Public Policy, Psychology | Behavior, Tolerance
I would much rather live a life full of “oh wells” than a life full of “what ifs.”
Author: Unknown | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
Author: Pablo Picasso | Subjects: Concepts, Life & Society, Meaning, Personal Improvement