“Because there's nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it's sent away.”— Sarah Kay, ted.com
“Falling in love feels amazing, but it's also terrifying. The moment you admit to loving someone, you admit to having a lot to lose.”— Mandy Len Catron, ted.com
“Maybe one of the most heartening findings from the psychology of pleasure is there’s more to looking good than your physical appearance. If you like somebody, they look better to you. This is why spouses in happy marriages tend to think that their husband or wife looks much better than anyone else t…”— Paul Bloom, ted.com
“There’s zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.”— Susan Cain, ted.com
“I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.”— Georg C. Lichtenberg, goodreads.com
“We talk a lot about our right to freedom of expression, but we need to talk more about our responsibility to freedom of expression. We all want to be heard, but let's acknowledge the difference between speaking up with intention and speaking up for attention.”— Monica Lewinsky, ted.com
“The echo of embarrassment used to extend only as far as your family, village, school or community, but now it's the online community too. Millions of people, often anonymously, can stab you with their words, and that's a lot of pain.”— Monica Lewinsky, ted.com
“Cruelty to others is nothing new, but online, technologically enhanced shaming is amplified, uncontained, and permanently accessible.”— Monica Lewinsky, ted.com
“I was branded as a tramp, tart, slut, whore, bimbo, and, of course, ‘that woman’. I was seen by many but actually known by few. And I get it, it was easy to forget that ‘that woman’ was dimensional, had a soul, and was once unbroken.”— Monica Lewinsky, ted.com
“Overnight I went from being a completely private figure to a publicly humiliated one worldwide. I was patient zero of losing a personal reputation on a global scale almost instantaneously.”— Monica Lewinsky, ted.com
“Many people believe that memory works like a recording device. You just record the information, then you call it up and play it back when you want to answer questions or identify images. But decades of work in psychology has shown that this just isn’t true. Our memories are constructive. They’re rec…”— Elizabeth Loftus, ted.com
“What I’ve come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion.”— Chris Abani, ted.com
“We're all just human beings. We should be guided by that most basic fact, and approach one another with generosity and compassion.”— Megan Phelps-Roper, ted.com
“When we engage people across ideological divides, asking questions helps us map the disconnect between our differing points of view.”— Megan Phelps-Roper, ted.com
“Assuming ill motives almost instantly cuts us off from truly understanding why someone does and believes as they do.”— Megan Phelps-Roper, ted.com
“You know, you can steel your heart against any kind of trouble, any kind of horror. But the simple act of kindness from a complete stranger will unstitch you.”— Chris Abani, ted.com
“I asked Jesus to fix me, and when he did not answer I befriended silence in the hopes that my sin would burn.”— Lee Mokobe, ted.com