In many large ways, it’s almost as if we have collectively stopped planning for the future. Instead, we all just sort of bounce along in the present, caught in the headlights of a tomorrow pushed by a few large corporations and shaped by the inescapable logic of hyper-efficiency — a future heading straight for us. It’s not just future shock; we now have future blindness. … [ Read more ]
Author: Farhad Manjoo | Subject: Life & Society
Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.
Author: Farrah Gray | Subjects: Business, Career
Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.
Author: Unknown | Subjects: Concepts, Freedom | Liberty, Happiness, Insight, Life & Society, Psychology | Behavior
If you aren’t happy with all that you have, neither will you be happy with all you lack.
Author: Unknown | Subjects: Happiness, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior
A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.
Author: William James | Subjects: Prejudice and Stereotype, Psychology | Behavior, Thought | Inquiry
If you look at every human being as a Divine mirror, you will know yourself and understand life.
Author: Sherif Baba | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior, Religion
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
I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Achilles; fortune hath not one place to hit me.
Author: Sir Thomas Browne | Subjects: Happiness, Psychology | Behavior
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
There are so many people who don’t know what they want. And I think that, in this world, that’s the only thing you have to know — exactly what you want. […] Doing what you were born to do […] That’s the way to be happy.
Author: Agnes Martin | Subject: Personal Improvement
If you want to study yourself – look into the hearts of other people. If you want to study other people – look into your own heart.
Author: Friedrich Von Schiller | Subject: Personal Improvement
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
To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.
Author: Confucius | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Thought | Inquiry
You can achieve wisdom in three ways. The first way is the way of meditation. This is the most noble way. The second way is the way of imitation. This is the easiest and least satisfying way. Thirdly, there is the way of experience. This is the most difficult way.
Author: Confucius | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Personal Improvement, Wisdom
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
Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.
Author: Nelson Mandela | Subjects: Insight, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior
People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway. If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have and … [ Read more ]
Author: Mother Teresa | Subjects: Personal Improvement, Religion
Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.
Author: Unknown | Subject: Relationships