Quotes from Arianna Huffington

Moving ourselves to the background and others to the foreground is evidence that the (spiritual) search is achieving its purpose.

live fuller, more complete lives, aligned with what matters: A life that isn't defined by our salaries and résumés.

Studying mice, they discovered a "master clock" in a region of the brain (the dorsomedial nucleus) that can reset the circadian rhythm when faced with a shortage of food. The thinking is that when food is not an issue, lightness and darkness synchronize our sleep cycle. But when food is scarce, another system kicks in to synchronize our sleep cycle with our ability to find food.

Essayist and philosopher Alain de Botton describes art as "an apothecary for the soul.

fly in the afternoon if you're headed west and in the morning if you're going east..If you have to take a night flight, he suggests at least trying to get in a nap the day before. "Taking a nap before you're exhausted can actually reduce the adverse effect of being awake at the wrong time of day. This is what we refer to as prophylactic napping.

It's a longing, an aching to complete ourselves, to unite with that which makes us whole. We are longing for God the way a soldier longs for his wife faraway. It a relentless homesickness that, however desperately we try, will accept no substitutes.

Use it or lose it" is a law of nature, but mercifully "not a soul will be lost" is a law of the spirit that supersedes it.

More and more people, of all ages and from all walks of life, are coming to realize that there's more to life than climbing the ladder, that we are more than our résumés, and that we don't have to buy into the collective delusion that burnout is the necessary price we must pay for success.

Montaigne: "There were many terrible things in my life, but most of them never happened.

Researchers from Harvard and the University of Virginia did an experiment in which they gave people a choice to be alone in a room, without anything—devices, books, papers, phones—or get an electric shock. 67 percent of men chose an electric shock.

Aphrodite embodies sexuality free of ambivalence, anxieties and self-consciousness, a sexuality so natural and quintessential to her that no myth deals with her virginity or its loss.

As Sheryl Sandberg told me, "I found that when I cut my office hours dramatically once I had kids, I was not just working less, but I was more productive. Having children forced me to treat every minute of my time as precious—

Worry is a form of atheism. And so is most fear.

To truly redefine success we need to redefine our relationship with death.

Yet our appointment with sleep is one we don't seem to mind missing, day after day, night after night. When we think of sleep as an actual appointment-- a meeting of sorts, with ourselves-- we're much more likely to grant it the time it deserves. Given that we now set alarms on our smartphones and smartwatches for things of much less importance, the work-down call is a great idea to adopt.

A friend of mine has a ritual: He writes a poem every day with his morning coffee.

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More money," Etcoff writes, "is spent on beauty than on education or social services." FEARS

There are no lobbyists for the American Dream.

we can only achieve true wisdom when our soul is liberated from our bodies by death.

one of the least discussed benefits (or miracles, really) of sleep: the way it allows us, once we return from our night's journey, to see the world anew, with fresh eyes and a reinvigorated spirit, to step out of time and come back to our lives restored.

generación está atiborrada de información y hambrienta de sabiduría.

It's also our collective delusion that overwork and burnout are the price we must pay in order to succeed.

Lo que necesitamos —dijo Koehn— es sabiduría, porque la información... no es igual al conocimiento, y el conocimiento no es igual al entendimiento, y el entendimiento no es igual a la sabiduría...