Arianna Huffington Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Failure is not the opposite of success; it's part of success.”
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“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.”
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“We take better care of our smartphone than ourselves. We know when the battery is depleted and recharge it”
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“Living in a state of gratitude is the gateway to grace.”
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“We all have within us the ability to move from struggle to grace.”
-- Arianna HuffingtonSource : Arianna Huffington (2014). “Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder”, p.111, Harmony
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“The first step toward changing the world is to change our vision of the world and of our place in it.”
-- Arianna HuffingtonSource : Arianna Huffington (2006). “On Becoming Fearless...in Love, Work, and Life”, p.123, Hachette UK
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“Women still have an uneasy relationship with power and the traits necessary to be a leader. There is this internalized fear that if we are really powerful, we are going to be considered ruthless or pushy or strident - all of those epithets that strike right at our femininity. We are still working at trying to overcome the fear that power and womanliness are mutually exclusive.”
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“Life is a dance between making it happen and letting it happen.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's about getting up one more time than we fall down.”
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“We don’t have to wait until we move or change jobs to change our lives. Nor do we have to wait for large-scale, upstream change. We can initiate change right now. There are endless starting points.”
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“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, diabetes, heart disease, sleeplessness, and high blood pressure.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
-- Arianna HuffingtonSource : Arianna Huffington (2014). “Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder”, p.73, Harmony
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“Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.”
-- Arianna HuffingtonSource : FaceBook post by Arianna Huffington from Mar 22, 2014
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“There is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children.”
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“If you take care of your mind, you take care of the world.’ ”
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“At the moment, our society's notion of success is largely composed of two parts: money and power. But it's time for a third metric, beyond money and power - one founded on well-being, wisdom, our ability to wonder, and to give back.”
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“Naysayers have little power over us - unless we give it to them.”
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“Failure is a stepping stone to success.”
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“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.”
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“I have one piece of advice for you: sleep your way to the top.”
-- Arianna HuffingtonSource : "Curls and dimples: Shirley Temple, child star who made 'em smile during Depression, dies at 85", www.foxnews.com. February 11, 2014.
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“Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.”
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“Why worry about minor little details like clean air, clean water, safe ports and the safety net when Jesus is going to give the world an "Extreme Makeover: Planet Edition" right after he finishes putting Satan in his place once and for all?”
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“The more fearless we are in our personal lives, the more of that spirit we'll bring to changing our world.”
-- Arianna HuffingtonSource : "A Conversation Between Arianna and Her Daughters". Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2007.
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“Being fearless doesn't mean living a life devoid of fear, but living a life in which our fears don't hold us back”
-- Arianna HuffingtonSource : FaceBook post by Arianna Huffington from Apr 30, 2014
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“There is a purpose to our lives, even if it is sometimes hidden from us, and even if the biggest turning points and heartbreaks only make sense as we look back, rather than as we are experiencing them. So we might as well live life as if - as the poet Rumi put it - everything is rigged in our favor.”
-- Arianna HuffingtonSource : Arianna Huffington (2014). “Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder”, p.22, Harmony
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“To live exuberantly, we must be prepared to illuminate the dark spots in ourselves.”
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“People discover that by helping others, even when they themselves are suffering, they end up improving their own lives.”
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