“Few people are powerful enough, persuasive, persistent, consistent, and charismatic enough to change the world all at once, but everyone has the ability to affect the three feet around them by behaving more ethically, honestly, and compassionately toward those they meet. Just picture it: If more peo…”— Sharon Salzberg, onbeing.org
“Our minds are constantly putting us in survival mode all day so they can protect us from what they think is death, and unfortunately, our minds think almost everything is death. Starting something new is death. Being judged by someone is death. If you're not number one, if you get made fun of, if yo…”— Kyle Cease, amazon.com
“What these results suggest is that the compassion we feel for others is not solely a function of what befalls them: if our minds draw an association between a victim and ourselves — even a relatively trivial one — the compassion we feel for his or her suffering is amplified greatly.”— David DeSteno, nytimes.com
“Aristotle approves of food, drink and sex (all in moderation – he’s big on moderation); he believes leisure is more important than work; that we all have innate talents and that we don’t peak until we’re 49. What’s not to like?”— Lisa Allardice, theguardian.com
“You don't have to move mountains. You'll change the world simply by being a warm, kind-hearted human being.”— Anita Krizzan, facebook.com
“To be a child of snobs deserves its own taxonomy, treatment and pathway to health. Part of this involves overcoming anger towards one’s carers – and realising that snobs are not evil, merely wounded.”— Alain de Botton, theschooloflife.com
“Rogers was extraordinarily good at imagining where children’s minds might go. He wrote a song called 'You Can Never Go Down the Drain' because he knew that drains were something that, to kids, seemed to exist solely to suck things down.”— Maxwell King, theatlantic.com
“Running is a crappy way to lose fat and an inferior way to boost cardiovascular health, but it's somehow become the most popular exercise on Earth after walking. That's bad, because running sucks. There's a reason that up to 79 percent of runners get sidelined with an injury at least once per year:…”— Nick English, tonic.vice.com
“What none of this addresses, of course, is why someone might hate their body. There is no inherent unhappiness to womanhood, or to fatness, or to blackness, or to anything else that American beauty standards have long treated as a problem. The conditions under which we loathe ourselves are socially…”— Amanda Mull, racked.com
“These companies, with all their resources and reach and ability to manipulate public opinion, have done something they do frequently: They’ve conflated identifying a problem with solving it, and if we let ourselves be convinced these issues are headed in the right direction and our problems really a…”— Amanda Mull, racked.com
“We're such language-based creatures that to some extent we cannot know what we cannot name. And so we assume it isn't real. We refer to it with catch-all terms, like crazy or chronic pain, terms that both ostracise and minimise. The term chronic pain captures nothing of the grinding, constant, cease…”— John Green, amazon.com
“How you start your day is how you live your day. How you live your day is how you live your life.”— Louise Hay, amazon.com
“I have never understood the importance of having children memorize battle dates. It seems like such a waste of mental energy. Instead, we could teach them important subjects such as How the Mind Works, How to Handle Finances, How to Invest Money for Financial Security, How to be a Parent, How to Cre…”— Louise Hay, amazon.com
“Cate Blanchett once said something like, ‘I don’t ever want to feel that I’ve arrived, because as soon as you arrive, you have to leave.' That’s the way I’ve always felt about it. I’m not interested in getting to the top of the mountain. I hope that, at the top of the mountain, there’s just another…”— Anne Hathaway, glamour.com
“Our minds, it turns out, are very good at persuading us to follow intuitions about happiness that turn out to be entirely wrong.”— Adam Sternbergh, thecut.com
“Social reality is not just about words—it gets under your skin. If you perceive the same baked good as a decadent 'cupcake' or a healthful 'muffin,' research suggests that your body metabolizes it differently. Likewise, the words and concepts of your culture help to shape your brain wiring and your…”— Lisa Feldman Barrett, amazon.com
“An emotion is your brain’s creation of what your bodily sensations mean, in relation to what is going on around you in the world.”— Lisa Feldman Barrett, amazon.com
“Simulations are your brain’s guesses of what’s happening in the world. In every waking moment, you’re faced with ambiguous, noisy information from your eyes, ears, nose, and other sensory organs. Your brain uses your past experiences to construct a hypothesis—the simulation—and compares it to the ca…”— Lisa Feldman Barrett, amazon.com