Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder
Arianna Huffington
Top 10 Best Quotes
“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.”
“If you take care of your mind, you take care of the world.’ ”
“I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.”
“And every day, the world will drag you by the hand, yelling, “This is important! And this is important! And this is important! You need to worry about this! And this! And this!” And each day, it’s up to you to yank your hand back, put it on your heart and say, “No. This is what’s important.” —IAIN THOMAS”
“it is very telling what we don’t hear in eulogies. We almost never hear things like: “The crowning achievement of his life was when he made senior vice president.” Or: “He increased market share for his company multiple times during his tenure.” Or: “She never stopped working. She ate lunch at her desk. Every day.” Or: “He never made it to his kid’s Little League games because he always had to go over those figures one more time.” Or: “While she didn’t have any real friends, she had six hundred Facebook friends, and she dealt with every email in her in-box every night.” Or: “His PowerPoint slides were always meticulously prepared.” Our eulogies are always about the other stuff: what we gave, how we connected, how much we meant to our family and friends, small kindnesses, lifelong passions, and the things that made us laugh.”
“Have you notices that when we die, our eulogies celebrate our lives very differently from the way society defines success?”
“And whenever I’d complain or was upset about something in my own life, my mother had the same advice: “Darling, just change the channel. You are in control of the clicker. Don’t replay the bad, scary movie.”
“It’s not ‘What do I want to do?’, it’s ‘What kind of life do I want to have?’ ”
“Treat people like family, and they will be loyal and give their all.”
“We may not be able to witness our own eulogy, but we’re actually writing it all the time, every day.”
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