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"Liberation is an ever shifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises. It has the therapeutic quality of providing emotionally charged rituals of solidarity in hatred - it is the amphetamine of its believers."
"Failure is not the opposite of success; it's part of success."
"The economic game is not supposed to be rigged like some shady ring toss on a carnival midway."
"Don’t just climb the ladder of success - a ladder that leads, after all, to higher and higher levels of stress and burnout - but chart a new path to success, remaking it in a way that includes not just the conventional metrics of money and power, but a third metric that includes well-being, wisdom, wonder and giving, so that the goal is not just to succeed but to thrive."
"We take better care of our smartphone than ourselves. We know when the battery is depleted and recharge it"
"There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface."
"Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left."
"We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success."
"The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection."
"We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in."
"The first step toward changing the world is to change our vision of the world and of our place in it."
"There is a purpose to our lives, even if it is sometimes hidden from us, and even if the biggest turning points and heartbreaks only make sense as we look back, rather than as we are experiencing them. So we might as well live life as if - as the poet Rumi put it - everything is rigged in our favor."
"In life, the things that go wrong are often the very things that lead to other things going right."
"Naysayers have little power over us - unless we give it to them."
"Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me."
"We all have within us the ability to move from struggle to grace."
"Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's about getting up one more time than we fall down."
"My mother was a continual source of wisdom and great advice...she taught me that there is always a way around a problem-you've just got to find it. Keep trying doors; one will eventually open. She also taught me to accept failure as part and parcel of life. It's not the opposite of success; it's an integral part of success. I talk a lot about learning to become fearless in your approach to life. But fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's all about getting up one more time than you fall down."
"But you have to do what you dream of doing even while you're afraid."
"Success is not a straight line, it's much more of a dance and being open to possibilities."