Life-changing ideas and insights from some of the world's greatest thinkers.
By some estimates, depression in the year 2000 was about ten times as likely as depression in the year 1900.
If you eat, move, and sleep well today, you will have more energy tomorrow. You will treat your friends and family better. You will achieve more at work and give more to your community. It all starts with making decisions like *tomorrow* depends on it.
Mindfulness is a foundational tool to change your relationship with FOPO. It enables you to be more aware of your thoughts, feelings, and emotions in each moment, giving you the space to respond rather than react. Mindfulness is both a state of being and a skill.
It is not a disgrace to fail…one must analyze each failure and find its cause…he must learn how to fail intelligently. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world. One fails toward success.
Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.
The thing I’m most proud of is my consistency.
Choose for yourself a moral hero, whose life, conversation, and expressive face all please you, then picture him to yourself at all times as your protector, and as your ethical pattern. We all need someone whose example can regulate our characters.
Reading sheds light on the dark path ahead. By traveling into the past, I enhance my grasp of the present.
I hope that . . . the ideal of the well-trained and vigorous body will be maintained neck by neck with that of the well-trained and vigorous mind, as the coequal halves of the higher education, for men and women alike.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.