Arianna Huffington Quotations

Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.

The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface.

Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one.

Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.

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.

The more we refuse to buy into our inner critics - and our external ones too - the easier it will get to have confidence in our choices, and to feel comfortable with who we are - as women and as mothers.

The economic game is not supposed to be rigged like some shady ring toss on a carnival midway.

It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species.

Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.

I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!

But you have to do what you dream of doing even while you're afraid.

Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after-life.

Trying to be Supermom is as futile as trying to be Perfect Mom. Not going to happen.

America is a country ready to be taken-in fact, longing to be taken-by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.

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.

But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children.

Liberation is an ever shifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises. It has the therapeutic quality of providing emotionally charged rituals of solidarity in hatred - it is the amphetamine of its believers.

There is nothing like becoming a mom to fill you with fear.

I'm pulling out, and I'm going to concentrate every ounce of time and energy over the next week working to defeat the recall because I realize now that's the only way to defeat Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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.

Often, you'll fail. But, as my mother also taught me, failure isn't the opposite of success - it's a stepping stone to success.

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

Before checking that last email before you go to bed, say to yourself, No, I am important. This is important. My body is more important.

Eulogies never talk about what was on your resume. Be remembered for how you made people feel and your passions

The Republican Party seems unwilling and unable to offer solutions to the crises we are facing, other than pitching the same failed ideas that got us into the mess we are in the first place.

Be a go-giver, not a go-getter

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

Remind yourself: you are not your thoughts or feelings

It matters, it matters very much, what each of us chooses to do. The journey toward self-discovery and self-knowledge is not only life's highest adventure, but also the only way to transform society from one based on self-centeredness and compulsory compassion to one based on service and mutual responsibility.

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.

Making money and doing good in the world are not mutually exclusive.

I'm passionate. I find if I really believe something, I want to put my entire being behind it.

Being a mother is the role I'm most proud of.

... it is easier to overcome people's judgments than to overcome our own self-judgment...

Paul Ryan has become a doormat...And he's become this little person who is following Romney around.

It’s not ‘What do I want to do?’, it’s ‘What kind of life do I want to have?’

Citizen journalists can attend events traditional journalists are kept from - or have overlooked - or find and highlight the small but evocative story happening right next door. By tapping this resource, news sites can extend their reach and help redefine news gathering in the digital age.

I had dinner recently with a guy who bragged that he had only gotten four hours of sleep that night. I didn't say it, but I thought to myself 'If you had gotten five, this dinner would have been a lot more interesting'

I started asking the big questions that I had asked in college, that my compatriots the Greek philosophers had asked, like 'what is a good life?' Socrates famously said that 'The unexamined life is not worth living.' I started asking these questions from the starting point of 'what is success?'

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.

I was lucky in that I had a mother that was full of this colloquial wisdom and she used to say to me 'You know, failure is not the opposite of success, it's the stepping stone to success. There is nobody who has not failed along the way.' So I think its very important for young women, especially as they are starting in life, to recognize that because otherwise, they only see people's success. So, when I speak, I speak of my failures.

A little learning is a dangerous thing. I must say that Rush Limbaugh is increasingly becoming a warning to kids of the perils of dropping out of school.

I think especially as women we nned to recognize that feeling pressure is completely selfimposed.

The first and most important step is to realize that, as my mother used to say, fearlessness isn't the absence of fear, but the mastery of fear. It's not that you never have fear, but that you don't let your fears stop you.

Well, you could become a Southern Baptist. I mean, instead of having to obey the Pope, you could just obey your husband.

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

Learning to code is useful no matter what your career ambitions are.

I've always been progressive on social issues: pro-choice, pro-gun control, and pro-gay rights - even when I was a Republican. The big difference is that I once believed the private sector would address America's social problems. But then I saw firsthand that this wasn't going to happen.

You can complete a project by dropping it.

America being behind France in upward mobility is a little bit like France being behind America in Croissants and Afternoon Sex.

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.

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.

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.

There may be no single thing that can teach us more about life than death.

Newt Gingrich and his fellow conservative Republicans talked a good game but, despite the lip service they offered about poverty and race and other social issues, they didn't really mean it.

By any sane definition of success, if you wake up in a pool of blood and nobody has shot you, you are not successful.

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

Liberation is an evershifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises.

Hollywood has gone from the capital of conspicuous consumption to the cutting edge of conspicuous conservation.

The Huffington Post Investigative Fund's goal is to produce a broad range of investigative journalism created by both staff reporters and freelance writers, with a focus on working with the many experienced reporters and writers impacted by the economic contraction. The pieces will range from long-form investigations to short breaking news stories and will be presented in a variety of media - including text, audio, and video.

corporate America corrupted the watchdogs that were supposed to be guarding the public interest by feeding them under the table.

Life is shaped from the inside out.

That's what I try to do as a writer and as the editor of HuffPost: cover important stories in an obsessive way that enables them to break through the din of our multimedia universe.

It’s time to sleep your way to the top,

There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids-and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface.

Given the multiple crises we are living through, investigative journalism is all the more important.

I have one piece of advice for you: sleep your way to the top.

As the newspaper industry continues to contract, one of the most commonly voiced fears is that serious investigative journalism will be among the victims of the scaleback. And, indeed, many newspapers are drastically reducing their investigative teams.

Self expression is the new entertainment, We never used to question why people sit on the couch for seven hours a day watching bad TV. Nobody ever asked, Why are they doing that for free? We need to celebrate [this desire to contribute for free] rather than question it.

Market forces have no intrinsically moral direction, which is why, before he wrote The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith wrote The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Ethics should precede economics. But it doesn't have to. . . . We know this because we've seen the results of capitalism without conscience: the pollution of the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat; the endangerment of workers; and the sale of dangerous products - from cars to toys to drugs. All in pursuit of ever-greater profits.

Having a partner definitely allows you to take more risks.

When life is at that extremely hard time, all we can control is our attitude.

When we really connect to that place of wisdom and strength and understanding, everything becomes easier.

Failure is an integral part of life and that perfection is not of this world.

having too much is never enough.

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we'll have to reclaim the ward 'taxes.' Why has it become a synonym for 'evil'? I understand that no one likes to pay good money for nothing. But fire and police protection aren't nothing. ... Roads, bridges, airports, and mass transit systems aren't nothing. National parks, clean air, and clear water aren't nothing. A safe food supply, functioning schools with well-trained teachers, and well-equipped hospitals aren't vaporous apparitions either.

Money and power by themselves are a two-legged stool. You can balance on them for a while, but eventually you're going to topple over.

It's not just the over $8 billion that we would be saving in law enforcement; it's also the over $8 billion that we would be making by taxing marijuana... We are filling our jails with nonviolent drug offenders - predominantly young, predominantly African American... It's a great beyond left and right issue. It has support across the political spectrum and also the support of the majority of the American people.

What Women's Lib might achieve if their 'consciousness raising' - or in plain English, brainwashing- campaign succeeds is a society whose members have identical roles but are perpetually at war with themselves; a society of males made neurotic by suppressed masculinity, of females made miserable by having masculine roles thrust upon them that contradict their feminine impulses.

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

How could someone with a renowned ability to inspire, communicate complex ideas, and connect with voters find himself in this position? The President [Barack Obama], though a dedicated student of history, has seemingly failed to learn the lesson of our nation's most significant political confrontations: They've required single-minded determination, and the willingness to battle until the fight was won.

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

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

It is the Fourth Instinct (the spirit - RJ) that urges us to exceed ourselves ... by awakening our intuitive selves, and striving to be all that we were intended to be. It takes us beyond self-centeredness and enables us to resist the combined forces of indifference and meaninglessness. It awakens us to a sense of responsibility for those most in need of our society as well as for that world that future generations will inherit.

We all have within us a centered place of wisdom, harmony, and balance.

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

An indispensable anthology of hope and inspiration. Put away your Prozac, and pick up The Impossible Will Take a Little While.

Moving forward, investigative journalists need to train themselves to be media amphibians - just as comfortable with the classic verities of great journalism as they are with video, Twitter, Facebook, and, most importantly, citizen journalism.

The journey toward self-discovery is life's greatest adventure.

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

I come from a Greek household. My mother wouldn't let the FedEx man come in without eating.

Success for me is going beyond money and power, and measuring success based on a third metric - one founded on well-being, wisdom, our ability to wonder and to give back. Money and power by themselves are a two-legged stool. You can balance on them for a while, but eventually you're going to topple over. Basically, success the way we've defined it is no longer sustainable.

Both political parties have a richly vested interest in corporate corruption.

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.

The only tool we have to fix the problems of this country - the democratic process - is itself broken. Which is why nothing will fundamentally change until we solve the problem of money in politics.

Discover the great ideas that lie inside you by discovering the power of sleep.

The crisis in America that we barely notice anymore is that we've become two nations - divided by poverty, opportunity, and race. It's like a neighbor's car alarm that we don't hear anymore because it rings so often.