Social reality is so complicated that, once you join one team or the other, you become specialized in detecting certain patterns, but you become blind to other patterns.
Jonathan HaidtRead
Love and work are to people what water and sunshine are to plants.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Love and work are essential for human growth and well-being, just as water and sunlight are vital for plants.
In this quote, Jonathan Haidt expresses the analogy between the foundational elements necessary for both human beings and plants to thrive. Just as water and sunshine nourish plants, enabling them to grow and flourish, love and meaningful work are fundamental for individuals, fostering emotional, psychological, and social well-being. This highlights the importance of nurturing relationships and pursuing fulfilling work for a healthy, balanced life.
Themes
LoveWorkGrowthWell-BeingHappiness
In practice
Example use cases
This quote could be shared during a motivational speech on work-life balance.
More from Jonathan Haidt
All quotes βUnderstanding the simple fact that morality differs around the world, and even within societies, is the first step toward understanding your righteous mind.
Jonathan HaidtRead
Suppose you read about a pill that you could take once a day to reduce anxiety and increase your contentment. Would you take it? Suppose further that the pill has a great variety of side effects, all of them good: increased self-esteem, empathy, and trust; it even improves memory. Suppose, finally, that the pill is all natural and costs nothing. Now would you take it? The pill exists. It is meditation.
Jonathan HaidtRead
Trying to run Congress without human relationships is like trying to run a car without motor oil. Should we be surprised when the whole thing freezes up?
Jonathan HaidtRead
If you grow up in a WEIRD society, you become so well educated in the ethic of autonomy that you can detect oppression and inequality even where the apparent victims see nothing wrong.
Jonathan HaidtRead
When you hear someone criticize a policy on the other side, that's fine. But when you start hearing motive-mongering and demonization, stand up to it just as you would if it were something that was racist or sexist. If we avoid the demonization, disagreements can be positive.
Jonathan HaidtRead
Similar quotes
And enough for me that when my hand touched your shoulder, you leaned on me; and when you felt me slip away, you called my name.
Orson Scott CardRead
Girl lithe and tawny, the sun that forms the fruits, that plumps the grains, that curls seaweeds filled your body with joy, and your luminous eyes and your mouth that has the smile of the water. A black yearning sun is braided into the strands of your black mane, when you stretch your arms. You play with the sun as with a little brook and it leaves two dark pools in your eyes.
Pablo NerudaRead
When he was young, he had thought love had something to do with understanding, but with age he knew that no human being understood another. Love was the wish to understand, and presently with constant failure the wish died, and love died too perhaps or changed into this painful affection, loyalty, pity.
Graham GreeneRead
I can give away everything I posses, but am without love, and I have no happiness
Lauryn HillRead
Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
Leo TolstoyRead
What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye
William ShakespeareRead