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.
Arianna HuffingtonRead
People discover that by helping others, even when they themselves are suffering, they end up improving their own lives.
Interpretation
Helping others can lead to personal growth and satisfaction, even in times of personal struggle.
This quote emphasizes the profound impact that altruism and helping others can have on our own well-being. Arianna Huffington suggests that even in moments of personal hardship, when we extend a helping hand to someone else, we paradoxically foster our own happiness and resilience. It speaks to the interconnectedness of human experiences and how acts of kindness can lead to unexpected rewards in our own lives.
In practice
This quote can be used in motivational speeches to inspire community service.
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.
Don't buy society’s definition of success. Because it’s not working for anyone. It’s not working for women, it's not working for men, it's not working for polar bears, it's not working for the cicadas that are apparently about to emerge and swarm us. It’s only truly working for those who make pharmaceuticals for stress, sleeplessness and high blood pressure.
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.
Don’t just climb the ladder of success - a ladder that leads, after all, to higher and higher levels of stress and burnout - but chart a new path to success, remaking it in a way that includes not just the conventional metrics of money and power, but a third metric that includes well-being, wisdom, wonder and giving, so that the goal is not just to succeed but to thrive.
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.
Failure is not the opposite of success; it's part of success.
Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.
Imagine what it might do to the human spirit to know that we have conquered hunger as a world wide societal issue?
He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night.
So many memories and so little worth remembering, and in front of me - a long, long road without a goal.
I'm actively working hard on learning to appreciate yourself no matter what. If what someone else says can easily derail you, it means your sense of self isn't that firmly established in the first place. It's an inside job. You're beautiful and worthy and totally unique. People insult each other based on their own insecurities - even though it may feel personal, it really never is. Really. Seriously.
For values or guiding principles to be truly effective they have to be verbs. It's not "integrity," it's "always do the right thing." It's not "innovation," it's "look at the problem from a different angle." Articulating our values as verbs gives us a clear idea - we have a clear idea of how to act in any situation.
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