Arianna Huffington Quotes

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Moving ourselves to the background and others to the foreground is evidence that the (spiritual) search is achieving its purpose.

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Today we often use deadlines — real and imaginary — to imprison ourselves.

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The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 - only this time, it's not just one giant insurance company (and its banking counterparties) facing disaster, it's tens of millions of hardworking Americans who played by the rules.

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When your house is burning down, you don't worry about the remodeling.

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In theory we are all equal before the law. In practice, there are overwhelming privileges that come with winning the birth lottery.

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Have you noticed that when we die, our eulogies celebrate our lives very differently from the way society defines success?

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We all have within us the ability to move from struggle to grace.

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Why do we spend so much of our limited time on this earth focusing on all the things that our eulogies will never cover?

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It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no differences between the sexes.

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There can be no clearer indication of how undemocratic the way we finance campaigns is than the fact that only one-quarter of 1% donate $200 or more, and only one-tenth of 1% gives $1,000 or more.

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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.

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We don't have to wait until we move or change jobs to change our lives. Nor do we have to wait for large-scale, upstream change. We can initiate change right now. There are endless starting points.

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There is a purpose to our lives, even if it is sometimes hidden from us, and even if the biggest turning points and heartbreaks only make sense as we look back, rather than as we are experiencing them. So we might as well live life as if - as the poet Rumi put it - everything is rigged in our favor.

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But fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's all about getting up one more time than you fall down.

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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.

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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.

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The first step toward changing the world is to change our vision of the world and of our place in it.

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Everything you do, you'll do better with a good night's sleep,

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The average smartphone user checks his or her device every six and a half minutes.

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To speak about this universal force that will lead us beyond on the last horizon of our known self toward a wiser, more loving, more luminous states of being, we do not need to invent a new language. But we do need to listen to the old, the ancient one, not with our jaded minds, but with our awakened souls.

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So great becomes the fear of losing what we have that many of us rush back to hide under the temporary shelter of convention rather than follow the path of self-discovery wherever it might lead. Given adequate time and sufficient fear, we may hide so long that we hardly notice we're slowly suffocating.

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Lasting social change unfolds from inside out: from the inner to the outer being, from inner to outer realities.

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Those who have matured spiritually, now put service to others at the center of their quest and of their lives.

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Citizen journalism is rapidly emerging as an invaluable part of delivering the news. With the expansion of the Web and the ever-decreasing size and cost of camera phones and video cameras, the ability to commit acts of journalism is spreading to everyone.

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The most effective means for restoring the integrity of our electoral process, and repairing the public's tattered faith in its elected representatives, is through the full public financing of political campigns. It's the mother of all reforms: the one reform that makes all other reforms possible. After all, he who pays the piper calls the tune. If someone's going to own the politicians, it might as well be the American people.

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For too long, reporters for the big media outlets have been fixated on novelty, always moving too quickly onto the next big score or the next hot get. Paradoxically, in these days of instant communication and sixty-minute news cycles, it's actually easier to miss information we might otherwise pay attention to. That's why we need stories to be covered and re-covered until they filter up enough to become part of the cultural bloodstream.

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We forget we're mostly water till the rain falls and every atom in our body starts to go home.

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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.

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I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.

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Imagine how our culture, how our lives, will change when we begin valuing go-givers as much as we value go-getters.

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