Arianna Huffington Quotes

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. — RABINDRANATH TAGORE

We have little power to choose what happens, but we have complete power over how we respond.

Give me a place to stand, and I will move the world.

We are not on this earth to accumulate victories, things, and experiences, but to be whittled and sandpapered until what’s left is who we truly are.

And yet we spend so much time and effort and energy on those résumé entries — entries that lose all significance as soon as our heart stops beating.

Making money and doing good in the world are not mutually exclusive.

When we are all mind, things can get rigid. When we are all heart, things can get chaotic. Both lead to stress. But when they work together, the heart leading through empathy, the mind guiding us with focus and attention, we become a harmonious human being.

"In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Dumbledore asks Snape not to wake Harry: "Let him sleep. For in dreams, we enter a world that is entirely our own. Let him swim in the deepest ocean or glide over the highest cloud.

as the Zen saying goes, ‘If you take care of your mind, you take care of the world.’

Artemis is freedom — wild, untrammelled, aloof from all entanglements. She is a huntress, a dancer, the goddess of nature and wildness, a virgin physically and, even more important, a virgin psychologically, inviolable, belonging to no one, defined by no relationship, confined by no bond.

You are not your bank account, or your ambitiousness. You’re not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind when you die. You’re not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are spirit, you are love. — ANNE LAMOTT

The average smartphone user checks his or her device every six and a half minutes.

Our most meaningful relationships are based on a longing for expansion rather than a preoccupation with comfort and security. To live exuberantly — to fully know and be fully known by another — we must be prepared to illuminate the dark spots in our most intimate relationships and in our selves.

the prevalent cultural norm of sleep deprivation as essential to achievement and success.

My heart is at ease knowing that what was meant for me will never miss me, and that what misses me was never meant for me.