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"The current male-dominated model of success - which equates success with burnout, sleep deprivation, and driving yourself into the ground - isn't working for women, and it's not working for men, either."
"The average smartphone user checks his or her device every six and a half minutes."
"Liberation is an evershifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises."
"Being fearless doesn't mean living a life devoid of fear, but living a life in which our fears don't hold us back"
"It's time for our business and political leaders to help redefine morality beyond sex, drugs, and rock and roll to include lying, hypocrisy, and callous indifference to those in need."
"If we don't know ourselves, our essence, where our true power comes from, we will believe our power comes from collecting victories, trophies, money, or recognition. And these are all fine, but it's not ultimately what life is about. When we think it is, we really waste our greatest possibilities."
"Creating the culture of burnout is opposite to creating a culture of sustainable creativity. This is something that needs to be taught in business schools. This mentality needs to be introduced as a leadership and performance-enhancing tool."
"If you take care of your mind, you take care of the world.’"
"It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities . . ."
"It’s not ‘What do I want to do?’, it’s ‘What kind of life do I want to have?’"
"Nothing is ever enough when what you are looking for isn't what you really want."
"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."
"Meditation is not about stopping thoughts, but recognizing that we are more than our thoughts and our feelings."
"Never make decisions from a place of lack."
"What Women's Lib might achieve if their 'consciousness raising' - or in plain English, brainwashing- campaign succeeds is a society whose members have identical roles but are perpetually at war with themselves; a society of males made neurotic by suppressed masculinity, of females made miserable by having masculine roles thrust upon them that contradict their feminine impulses."
"We all have this place in us, a place of strength, harmony and wisdom, but most of the time we don't live there How can we course-correct faster? How can we encourage each other to live in that place more?"
"There are almost no worldly signals reminding us to stay connected to the essence of who we are, to take care of ourselves along the way, to reach out to others, to pause to wonder, and to connect to that place from which everything is possible."
"Don't wait until you're not afraid of something to do it. Do it despite the fear and you'll start to develop a 'fearlessness muscle'."
"Happiness is dealing with setbacks with more grace, understanding and acceptance"
"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."