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Love is not sexual desire or the blood-ties of kinship. Nor is it a special bond or commitment.
Barbara Fredrickson • Love 2.0: Finding Happiness and Health in Moments of Connection
the most successful people perceive their personalities and skills as fluid and are able to represent themselves differently and adaptively.
Laura Huang • Edge: Turning Adversity into Advantage
The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it’s not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset. This is the mindset that allows people to thrive during some of the most challenging times in their lives.
Carol S. Dweck • Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Dr. Seligman’s overall conclusion from these and other studies is that it is not the world per se that puts us at increased risk of illness so much as how we see and think about what is happening to us.
Jon Kabat-Zinn • Full Catastrophe Living, Revised Edition: How to cope with stress, pain and illness using mindfulness meditation
The human species was given this tremendous gift of neuroplasticity, the ability to change ourselves and be better in deliberate ways. My definition of greatness is anyone that’s making that effort, even in a tiny way, just to take this incredible machinery that we were given—our nervous system—and to leverage it toward being better, feeling better
... See moreLiving in Alignment
Few learn to move with the grace of an acrobat, see with the fresh eye of an artist, feel the joy of an athlete who breaks his own record, taste with the subtlety of a connoisseur, or love with a skill that lifts sex into a form of art. Because these opportunities are easily within reach, the easiest step toward improving the quality of life consis
... See moreMihaly Csikszentmihalyi • Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
Love unfolds and reverberates between and among people—within interpersonal transactions—and thereby belongs to all parties involved, and to the metaphorical connective tissue that binds them together, albeit temporarily.
Barbara Fredrickson • Love 2.0: Finding Happiness and Health in Moments of Connection
simple exercise of focusing on what matters most can have remarkable effects on experiences of inequality. First, it makes people care less about what others think of them.