The economic game is not supposed to be rigged like some shady ring toss on a carnival midway.
There may be no single thing that can teach us more about life than death.
There is nothing like becoming a mom to fill you with fear.
By any sane definition of success, if you wake up in a pool of blood and nobody has shot you, you are not successful.
HuffPost serves as a starter page for news consumers, a place to find, and be directed to, the best content available on the Web. We consistently link out directly to other sites – often from our top-of-the-page headline.
When your house is burning down, you don’t worry about the remodeling.
Hollywood has gone from the capital of conspicuous consumption to the cutting edge of conspicuous conservation.
Liberation is an evershifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises.
The average smartphone user checks his or her device every six and a half minutes.
When life is at that extremely hard time, all we can control is our attitude.
Learning to code is useful no matter what your career ambitions are.
Newt Gingrich and his fellow conservative Republicans talked a good game but, despite the lip service they offered about poverty and race and other social issues, they didn’t really mean it.
Through the stories of women I admire, and, above all, through my own experience with my daughters, again and again I encounter moments of extraordinary strength, courage, and resilience, when fears are confronted, even overcome, and anything seems possible.
You can complete a project by dropping it.
We all need to be reminded 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.
I started asking the big questions that I had asked in college, that my compatriots the Greek philosophers had asked, like ‘what is a good life?’ Socrates famously said that ‘The unexamined life is not worth living.’ I started asking these questions from the starting point of ‘what is success?’
I’ve always been progressive on social issues: pro-choice, pro-gun control, and pro-gay rights – even when I was a Republican. The big difference is that I once believed the private sector would address America’s social problems. But then I saw firsthand that this wasn’t going to happen.
Both political parties have a richly vested interest in corporate corruption.
The journey toward self-discovery is life’s greatest adventure.
Those who have matured spiritually, now put service to others at the center of their quest and of their lives.