Quotes

My wife could turn to me and she may say, ‘Why do you love me?’ And I can with all honesty look her in the eye and say, ’Because our pheromones matched our olfactory receptors.’
— Robin Ince

Vulnerability is our most accurate measurement of courage.
— Brené Brown

Your child will live a life ten years younger than you because of the landscape of food that we’ve built around them.
— Jamie Oliver

The opposite of poverty is not wealth. … In too many places, the opposite of poverty is justice.
— Bryan Stevenson

Repeated psychology tests have proven that telling someone your goal makes it less likely to happen.
— Derek Sivers

Education is great … but it's really my creativity that's taught me that I can be much more than what my education told me I am.
— Raghava KK

Always be looking for that which you do well and that which you love doing, and when you find those two things together — man, you got it.
— Colin Powell

Who do you think made the first stone spears? The Asperger guy. If you were to get rid of all the autism genetics, there would be no more Silicon Valley.
— Temple Grandin

Anger is like gasoline. If you spray it around and somebody lights a match, you've got an inferno. [But] if we can put our anger inside an engine, it can drive us forward.
— Scilla Elworthy

When you look at the Moon, you think, ‘I’m really small. What are my problems?’ It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the Moon a bit more often.
— Alain de Botton

Preparing for death is one of the most empowering things you can do. Thinking about death clarifies your life.
— Candy Chang

The next time you’re faced with something that’s unexpected, unwanted and uncertain, consider that it just may be a gift.
— Stacey Kramer

We don’t choose between experiences, we choose between memories of experiences. Even when we think about the future, we don’t think of our future normally as experiences. We think of our future as anticipated memories.
— Daniel Kahneman

If Americans want to live the American dream, they should go to Denmark.
— Richard Wilkinson

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