Quotes from Arianna Huffington

The essence of leadership is being able to see the iceberg before it hits the Titanic.

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.

Fearlessness is the mother of reinvention.

Trying to be Supermom is as futile as trying to be Perfect Mom. Not going to happen.

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

The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.

There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface.

There is nothing like becoming a mom to fill you with fear.

I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!

America is a country ready to be taken, in fact, longing to be taken by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes–understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Dumbledore asks Snape not to wake Harry: "Let him sleep. For in dreams, we enter a world that is entirely our own. Let him swim in the deepest ocean or glide over the highest cloud.

It matters, it matters very much, what each of us chooses to do. The journey toward self-discovery and self-knowledge is not only life's highest adventure, but also the only way to transform society from one based on self-centeredness and compulsory compassion to one based on service and mutual responsibility.

You are not your bank account, or your ambitiousness. You're not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind when you die. You're not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are spirit, you are love. —ANNE LAMOTT

When we are all mind, things can get rigid. When we are all heart, things can get chaotic. Both lead to stress. But when they work together, the heart leading through empathy, the mind guiding us with focus and attention, we become a harmonious human being.

Give me a place to stand, and I will move the world.

We are not on this earth to accumulate victories, things, and experiences, but to be whittled and sandpapered until what's left is who we truly are.

Making money and doing good in the world are not mutually exclusive.

And yet we spend so much time and effort and energy on those résumé entries—entries that lose all significance as soon as our heart stops beating.

as the Zen saying goes, 'If you take care of your mind, you take care of the world.' 

We have little power to choose what happens, but we have complete power over how we respond.

By helping us keep the world in perspective, sleep gives us a chance to refocus on the essence of who we are. And in that place of connection, it is easier for the fears and concerns of the world to drop away.

The average smartphone user checks his or her device every six and a half minutes.

Our most meaningful relationships are based on a longing for expansion rather than a preoccupation with comfort and security. To live exuberantly—to fully know and be fully known by another—we must be prepared to illuminate the dark spots in our most intimate relationships and in our selves.