2099 Quotations Found

Pain is frightening when it shows its real face, but it’s seductive when it comes disguised as sacrifice or self-denial. Or cowardice.

Author: Paulo Coelho | Subjects: Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior

Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine.

Author: Paulo Coelho | Subjects: Desires, Psychology | Behavior

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

No one wants their life thrown into chaos. That is why a lot of people keep that threat under control, and are somehow capable of sustaining a house or a structure that is already rotten. They are the engineers of the superseded. Other people think exactly the opposite: they surrender themselves without a second thought, hoping to find in passion the solutions to all their … [ Read more ]

Author: Paulo Coelho | Subjects: 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

The right is starry eyed about the market but coldly realistic about the limitations of government. The left is starry eyed about government but coldly realistic about the limitations of the market. As Churchill once said about democracy, it’s the worst possible system except for all the others. Both the market and the government are deeply flawed tools. But they are all we have.

Authors: Joan C. Williams, Ro Khanna | Source: Harvard Business Review (HBR) | Subject: Politics & Public Policy

We don’t need to reinvent capitalism. We just need to practice it. That means that corporations that embrace market mechanisms and decry government intervention in the good times should not change the rules when times turn tough. Privatizing profits while socializing risks isn’t capitalism: It’s rigged roulette. Equally important, practicing capitalism does not mean insisting on special treatment from government that benefits shareholders at the … [ Read more ]

Authors: Joan C. Williams, Ro Khanna | Source: Harvard Business Review (HBR) | Subjects: Business, Economics | Economy, Politics & Public Policy

Every business takes from the environment. We get access to resources, roads, infrastructure, and education. So it’s only right that we have a mind-set that we give back, we replenish as well as consume. And we use our voice to try to make a difference.

Author: Jeremy Darroch | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Business, Economics | Economy, Politics & Public Policy

Perhaps love really can transform someone, but despair does the job more quickly.

Author: Paulo Coelho | Subjects: Concepts, Love, Psychology | Behavior

I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions, but … laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with … [ Read more ]

Author: Thomas Jefferson | Source: The Atlantic | Subject: Politics & Public Policy

Communication is not just about what you say, it’s about the reaction it causes in the listener. Often we think delivering a message is enough without checking to see if it was actually received.

Author: Khalid Halim | Source: First Round Review | Subject: Communication

Integral theory encourages you to look at the world through the lenses of the “It,” the “We,” and the “I.” The It refers to your tasks and your role at work: Your goals, achievements and the stuff you’re getting done. The We is about your relationships, the quality of your interactions — which too few people think about. And the I is about the attitudes … [ Read more ]

Author: Chris Holmberg | Source: First Round Review | Subject: Personal Improvement

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

The greatest fear in the world is of the opinions of others. And the moment you are unafraid of the crowd you are no longer a sheep, you become a lion. A great roar arises in your heart, the roar of freedom.

Author: Osho | Subjects: Insight, Personal Improvement, Sociology | Anthropology

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

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else … [ Read more ]

Author: Steve Jobs | Subject: Personal Improvement

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

My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind.

Author: William James | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Personal Improvement

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

Author: Pope John XXIII | Subject: Personal Improvement