Thought of the Moment

I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem.

Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.

- Life of Pi Read more

If you really want to change a culture, to empower women, improve basic hygiene and health care, and fight high rates of infant mortality, the answer is to educate girls.

- Greg Mortenson, Three Cups of Tea Read more

Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good.

- Malcolm Gladwell Read more

Time and tide wait for no man.

- Geoffrey Chaucer Read more

A long, healthy, and happy life is the result of making contributions, of having meaningful projects that are personally exciting and contribute to and bless the lives of others.

- Stephen Covey Read more

The road is better than the end.

- Cervantes Read more

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

- Aristotle Read more

You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge. But it can only emerge if something fundamental changes in your state of consciousness. Read more

Enthusiasm is more important to mastery than innate ability, it turns out, because the single most important element in developing an expertise is your willingness to practice.

From - The Happiness Project, by Gretchen Rubin Read more

Immanuel Kant believed that we humans, because we are so emotionally complex, go through two puberties in life.

The first puberty is when our bodies become mature enough for sex; the second puberty is when our minds become mature enough for sex.

The two events can be separated by many, many years... Read more