Arianna Huffington Quotes - Page 4

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?

All around the country, individuals are choosing to redefine their lives and the pursuit of happiness in ways much closer to the original notion put forth by our Founding Fathers. Their notion of the "pursuit of happiness" wasn't just about acquiring money and power, but about doing your part to add to the civic happiness of the community.

Any time we have projects that we haven't begun or completed, they drain energy.

Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one.

Meditation, yoga, and walks are all ways to regulate our stress and reconnect.

I wish I'd known sooner that success isn't defined by who goes the longest without vacation.

Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.

An indispensable anthology of hope and inspiration. Put away your Prozac, and pick up The Impossible Will Take a Little While.

I think especially as women we nned to recognize that feeling pressure is completely selfimposed.

You need to be able to nurture yourself in order to be a good mother, good at your job, good at servicing your community. I really believe women can do it all, but they can't do it all at the expense of their health, their sleep, and their sense of well-being.

I've always said that I think one of the best and cheapest ways to become healthier and happier is through mindfulness exercises like meditation.

Whether we regard the Women's Liberation movement as a serious threat, a passing convulsion, or a fashionable idiocy, it is a movement that mounts an attack on practically everything that women value today and introduces the language and sentiments of political confrontation into the area of personal relationships.

Market forces have no intrinsically moral direction, which is why, before he wrote The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith wrote The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Ethics should precede economics. But it doesn't have to. . . . We know this because we've seen the results of capitalism without conscience: the pollution of the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat; the endangerment of workers; and the sale of dangerous products - from cars to toys to drugs. All in pursuit of ever-greater profits.

It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities . . .

America being behind France in upward mobility is a little bit like France being behind America in Croissants and Afternoon Sex.

America is a country ready to be taken - in fact, longing to be taken - by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.

It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no differences between the sexes.

What preoccupies us is the way we define success. If you see your life purely in terms of money and power, then everything in your life becomes about 'Am I getting ahead?' and that is truly a barbaric way to live, because it eliminates huge chunks of our humanity.

Happiness is dealing with setbacks with more grace, understanding and acceptance

The first and most important step is to realize that, as my mother used to say, fearlessness isn't the absence of fear, but the mastery of fear. It's not that you never have fear, but that you don't let your fears stop you.

The only tool we have to fix the problems of this country - the democratic process - is itself broken. Which is why nothing will fundamentally change until we solve the problem of money in politics.

Eulogies never talk about what was on your resume. Be remembered for how you made people feel and your passions

I come from a Greek household. My mother wouldn't let the FedEx man come in without eating.

When life is at that extremely hard time, all we can control is our attitude.

Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an afterlife.