“We have come to believe that only those who have passion find fulfillment and success professionally. It’s as if passion is life’s magic pixie dust. We want success for our children and believe that only passion can lead them there. We hold on to this myth despite considerable evidence that millions…”— Lisa Heffernan, parenting.blogs.nytimes.com
“Very intelligent people are actually less satisfied with their lives if they socialize with people more frequently. Those with more intelligence and the capacity to use it are less likely to spend so much time socializing because they are focused on some other longer term objective. Think of the rea…”— Christopher Ingraham, washingtonpost.com
“Imagine what you’ll lose when you gain everything you want. You'll grow up eventually, you'll find love beyond your current comprehension, you'll do work you're proud of, you'll make money. But what of those beautiful days you got to spend alone? What did you do with the sacred hours you had to your…”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“Emotion is where learning begins, or, as is often the case, where it ends. Put simply, it is literally neurobiologically impossible to think deeply about things that you don’t care about.”— Jessica Lahey, well.blogs.nytimes.com
“Let there be spaces in your togetherness. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Let each one of you be alone, as the strings of a lute are alone, though they quiver with the same music. Stand together, yet not too near together:…”— Kahlil Gibran, amazon.com
“When the brain lights up, its activity is like a radio lighting up when music is played. It is an obvious fallacy to say that the radio composed the music. What is being viewed is only a physical correlation, not a cause.”— Deepak Chopra, huffingtonpost.com
“We really must understand that the lust for affluence in contemporary society is psychotic. It is psychotic because it has completely lost touch with reality. We crave things we neither need nor enjoy. We are made to feel ashamed to wear clothes or drive cars until they are worn out. The mass media…”— Richard Foster, amazon.com
“There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, 'Morning, boys. How's the water?' And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes, 'What the hell is water…”— David Foster Wallace, amazon.com
“The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sen…”— Bob Moorehead, amazon.com
“Whether or not we can create psychological effects as a result of working with imagery, it appears that sometimes our thoughts can have effects on our immune systems as found in a field of investigation that has come to be known as psychoneuroimmunology (O'Regan, 1983). In one study, rats were given…”— Imants Baruss, amazon.com
“We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us.”— André Gide, amazon.com
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite direction.”— E.F. Schumacher, amazon.com
“There is just as much value in the negative space. Not every second of your life has to be filled. A packed agenda is not success. Living to work as opposed to working to live is not a quality of life. Things are not split into ‘times in which you’re doing something that other people can quantify’ a…”— Brianna Wiest, thoughtcatalog.com
“Somehow, over the past few decades it's become conventional wisdom that we should put our faith in our feelings. That is, if we feel something—especially if we feel it intensely—then it deserves to be seen as valid, or truthful. The adage "trust your feelings" has by now become almost axiomatic. But…”— Leon Seltzer, psychologytoday.com
“Before you can live a part of you has to die. You have to let go of what could have been, how you should have acted and what you wish you would have said differently. You have to accept that you can’t change the past experiences, opinions of others at that moment in time or outcomes from their choic…”— Shannon Alder, amazon.com
“The desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath. A society based on the quest for security is nothing but a breath-retention contest in which everyone is as taut as a drum and as purple as a beet.”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present, since it is in the present and only in the present that you live. There is no other reality than present reality, so that, even if one were to live for endless ages, to liv…”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.”— Vincent Van Gogh, amazon.com