Quotes on Thrive

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class -- whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

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.

So far as physics is concerned, time's arrow is a property of entropy alone.

There is much that women can bring into politics that would make our world a kinder, gentler place for humanity to thrive in.

So what used to fit in a building now fits in your pocket, what fits in your pocket now will fit inside a blood cell in 25 years.

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.

If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.

Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue.

The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation. Sex does not thrive on monotony. Without feeling, inventions, moods, no surprises in bed. Sex must be mixed with tears, laughter, words, promises, scenes, jealousy, envy, all of the spices of fear, foreign travel, new faces, novels, stories, dreams, fantasies, music, dancing, opium, wine.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

For humans, the Arctic is a harshly inhospitable place, but the conditions there are precisely what polar bears require to survive - and thrive. 'Harsh' to us is 'home' for them. Take away the ice and snow, increase the temperature by even a little, and the realm that makes their lives possible literally melts away.

Irony has only emergency use. Carried over time it is the voice of the trapped who have come to enjoy their cage.

Eroticism thrives in the space between the self and the other.

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.

To me the biggest irony of this lifetime that I'm living is that for someone who thrives in the public eye in the creative ways that I do, I actually don't enjoy being in the public eye.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.