The only tool we have to fix the problems of this country – the democratic process – is itself broken. Which is why nothing will fundamentally change until we solve the problem of money in politics.
I’m passionate. I find if I really believe something, I want to put my entire being behind it.
An indispensable anthology of hope and inspiration. Put away your Prozac, and pick up The Impossible Will Take a Little While.
Remind yourself: you are not your thoughts or feelings.
Meditation, yoga, and walks are all ways to regulate our stress and reconnect.
Be a go-giver, not a go-getter.
Eulogies never talk about what was on your resume. Be remembered for how you made people feel and your passions.
Never make decisions from a place of lack.
We all have within us a centered place of wisdom, harmony, and balance. Whether or not we believe in the existence of the soul, we’ve all experienced times in which we’re fully connected with ourselves.
Before checking that last email before you go to bed, say to yourself, No, I am important. This is important. My body is more important.
Have you noticed that when we die, our eulogies celebrate our lives very differently from the way society defines success?
I had dinner recently with a guy who bragged that he had only gotten four hours of sleep that night. I didn’t say it, but I thought to myself ‘If you had gotten five, this dinner would have been a lot more interesting’
I think all the obituaries for newspapers we’re hearing are premature. Many papers are belatedly but successfully adapting to the new news environment. I.
I’m pulling out, and I’m going to concentrate every ounce of time and energy over the next week working to defeat the recall because I realize now that’s the only way to defeat Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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.
Trying to be Supermom is as futile as trying to be Perfect Mom. Not going to happen.
I have one piece of advice for you: sleep your way to the top.
Increasingly, staying in the middle class – let alone aspiring to become middle class – is becoming a game of chance.
It’s no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species.
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.