Quotes from Arianna Huffington

The land of burnout is not a place I ever want to go back to.

I see some people stay in one place because it's convenient or it's comfortable. But they're missing out on their passion.

The most important thing that we entrepreneurs have is our human capital. If we exhaust it, we make bad decisions.

Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.

It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species.

I studied, I met with medical doctors, scientists, and I'm here to tell you that the way to a more productive, more inspired, more joyful life is: getting enough sleep.

When we really connect to that place of wisdom and strength and understanding, everything becomes easier.

Failure is not the opposite of success; it's part of success.

It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities . . .

If you want to have the clarity and steadiness to deal with that '3:00 A.M. phone call,' you should better have made sure that you're not running on empty when that phone rings.

Women need to lead the way to change our culture of burnout - both for their sake and also for the sake of successful men who desperately need a new model of success. And the still-very-macho world of STEM is a great place to start.

There's something sacred in all of us that we need to protect, and sleep is a way to connect with it, nourish it, and make it more present in our lives.

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.

Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.

Trump's executive order on refugees, his endless petty feuds - with allies, with judges, with Arnold Schwarzenegger - his constant stream of up-is-down and down-is-up fabrications is outrageous.

My passion is to help people live lives with less stress.

Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after-life.

The goal of any true resistance is to affect outcomes, not just to vent. And the only way to affect outcomes and thrive in our lives is to find the eye in the hurricane and act from that place of inner strength.

I can tell you with authority that when I'm exhausted, when I'm running on empty, I'm the worst version of myself.

For a hot-shot CEO taking over a troubled company, mass firings are the ultimate quick fix, the accounting equivalent of crack: cheap, easy to score, instantly gratifying, and highly addictive.

But you have to do what you dream of doing even while you're afraid.

The more we refuse to buy into our inner critics - and our external ones too - the easier it will get to have confidence in our choices, and to feel comfortable with who we are.

In theory we are all equal before the law. In practice, there are overwhelming privileges that come with winning the birth lottery.

Don't wait until you're not afraid of something to do it. Do it despite the fear and you'll start to develop a 'fearlessness muscle'.