Quotes from Arianna Huffington

Gratitude works its magic by serving as an antidote to negative emotions. It's like white blood cells for the soul, protecting us from cynicism, entitlement, anger, and resignation.

sleep deprivation is glamorized and celebrated: "You snooze, you lose.

When we shrink our whole reality down to pending projects, when our life becomes our endless to-do list, it's difficult to put them aside each night and let ourselves fall asleep and connect with something deeper.

Why worry about minor little details like clean air, clean water, safe ports and the safety net when Jesus is going to give the world an "Extreme Makeover: Planet Edition" right after he finishes putting Satan in his place once and for all?

Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's about getting up one more time than we fall down.

We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.

If you take care of your mind, you take care of the world.' 

I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.

And every day, the world will drag you by the hand, yelling, "This is important! And this is important! And this is important! You need to worry about this! And this! And this!" And each day, it's up to you to yank your hand back, put it on your heart and say, "No. This is what's important." —IAIN THOMAS

Have you notices that when we die, our eulogies celebrate our lives very differently from the way society defines success?

And whenever I'd complain or was upset about something in my own life, my mother had the same advice: "Darling, just change the channel. You are in control of the clicker. Don't replay the bad, scary movie.

It's not 'What do I want to do?', it's 'What kind of life do I want to have?' 

Treat people like family, and they will be loyal and give their all.

We may not be able to witness our own eulogy, but we're actually writing it all the time, every day.

Today we often use deadlines—real and imaginary—to imprison ourselves.

For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin—real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. —FR. ALFRED D'SOUZA

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn, a cool breeze in summer, snow in winter. If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life. —WU MEN

What is success? It is being able to go to bed each night with your soul at peace. —PAULO COELHO

We all have within us the ability to move from struggle to grace.

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say "so what." That's one of my favorite things to say. —ANDY WARHOL

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. —WILLIAM JAMES

Whenever we look around the world, we see smart leaders – in politics, in business, in media – making terrible decisions. What they're lacking is not IQ, but wisdom. Which is no surprise; it has never been harder to tap into our inner wisdom, because in order to do so, we have to disconnect from all our omnipresent devices – our gadgets, our screens, our social media – and reconnect with ourselves.

just change the channel. You are in control of the clicker. Don't replay the bad, scary movie.