He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.
Moving ourselves to the background and others to the foreground is evidence that the (spiritual) search is achieving its purpose.
Don’t just climb the ladder of success - a ladder that leads, after all, to higher and higher levels of stress and burnout - but chart a new path to success, remaking it in a way that includes not just the conventional metrics of money and power, but a third metric that includes well-being, wisdom, wonder and giving, so that the goal is not just to succeed but to thrive.
Failure is not the opposite of success; it's part of success.
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.
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.
We take better care of our smartphone than ourselves. We know when the battery is depleted and recharge it
I always say that I'm not the director, I'm part of the team.
I got hit up for a tampon commercial and so I asked [JD and Jo] if they had anything. Jo sent that over and I was like, "I love this track. Oh my god. It's so upbeat. It's so positive. It would be so great for a tampon commercial. " That commercial never came through, so then I just had it. I was like, "That would be great for a Hillary [Clinton] song. " I think it's so funny that it could be a tampon commercial.
Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.
A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.