"The more fearless we are in our personal lives, the more of that spirit we'll bring to changing our world."
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"Life is a dance between making it happen and letting it happen."
"America being behind France in upward mobility is a little bit like France being behind America in Croissants and Afternoon Sex."
"The happiest people are the most giving people"
"Ninety nine percent of the time it's not urgent and to create a culture where you are constantly plugged in and expected to be always-on is to create a culture of burnout."
"Living in a state of gratitude is the gateway to grace."
"Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor."
"Don't buy society’s definition of success. Because it’s not working for anyone. It’s not working for women, it's not working for men, it's not working for polar bears, it's not working for the cicadas that are apparently about to emerge and swarm us. It’s only truly working for those who make pharmaceuticals for stress, sleeplessness and high blood pressure."
"Women still have an uneasy relationship with power and the traits necessary to be a leader. There is this internalized fear that if we are really powerful, we are going to be considered ruthless or pushy or strident - all of those epithets that strike right at our femininity. We are still working at trying to overcome the fear that power and womanliness are mutually exclusive."
"The essence of leadership is being able to see the iceberg before it hits the Titanic."
"What's the third metric beyond money and power? I think it's a combination of wellbeing and wisdom. Because the problem also with defining success just in terms of money and power means that people feel that they have to work around the clock, burn out, and the result is people making terrible decisions."
"I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!"
"Clearly drive, IQ, and hard work are incredibly important. But ultimately what matters most is resilience--the ability to quickly rebound from failures, indeed to see failure as a stepping stone to success."
"People discover that by helping others, even when they themselves are suffering, they end up improving their own lives."
"I failed, many times in my life. One failure that I always remember was when my second book was rejected by 36 publishers. Many years later, I watched HuffPost come alive"
"Fearlessness is the mother of reinvention."
"One of my big milestones came when I turned forty and promised myself to stop worrying about all the things I thought I might do but never really would. I was very relieved when I realized that you can actually complete a project by dropping it. That's how I "completed" learning to cook and learning German, becoming a good skier, and a list of other things too long to recite!"
"The journey toward self-discovery is life's greatest adventure."
"Failure is not the opposite to success, it's a stepping stone to success. If our primary goal is to be approved of, then we are not going to take risks, we are not going to speak out, we are going to try to blend in."
"I studied, I met with medical doctors, scientists, and I’m here to tell you that the way to a more productive, more inspired, more joyful life is: getting enough sleep."