“Loneliness is thought to be as bad for our health as smoking 15 cigarettes per day. If you're lonely, you have a 32% higher chance of getting a stroke, a 29% higher chance of having heart disease and 30% higher chance of dying prematurely.”— Noreena Hertz
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Excellence means you do the absolute best you can in every situation that you face. It's an aesthetic concept, a performance concept, and helps you create the most perfect balance for success.
— Stephen A. SchwarzmanCo-Founder and CEO of Blackstone, Major Philanthropist
You start by asking yourself certain questions: who am I? what is it that wants to know who I am? What do I want for myself and the world? What is my purpose? What gives me meaning and purpose in life?
— Deepak ChopraWellness Entrepreneur & Author Promoting Mind-Body Medicine and Spirituality
I do not talk about life and death – I talk about birth and death, they are opposites, and life is simply a continuum of both, and you cannot have one without the other.
— Deepak ChopraWellness Entrepreneur & Author Promoting Mind-Body Medicine and Spirituality
Most people run around like biological robots, as if we are an algorithm not a being. We become the predictable outcomes of the conditioned reflexes of our nerves, constantly triggered by people in reaction to circumstances.
— Deepak ChopraWellness Entrepreneur & Author Promoting Mind-Body Medicine and Spirituality
In higher states of consciousness, we also lose our fear of death. The transcendent you is not in time. Only thought exists in time… only perception exists in time…
— Deepak ChopraWellness Entrepreneur & Author Promoting Mind-Body Medicine and Spirituality
When you start questioning and be mindfully aware of your thoughts, you realise that you are an observer of your thoughts, not the originator. You can then extend that observer experience to emotions, sensations, perceptual experience and every aspect of mental space.
— Deepak ChopraWellness Entrepreneur & Author Promoting Mind-Body Medicine and Spirituality
The reason for having leadership is to be found in the social nature of man. As an individual being man has the ability to act and to direct his own behaviour. But man lives in a society with a complex structure in which the actions of many individuals within groups in a variety of situations have to be directed.
— JJ DegeneaarOur entire civilisation is a manifestation of the complex inner worlds we carry with us. Everything around us, our buildings, cultures, politics, economies, statues, art and music are reflections of who we were, are and want to be.
— Jon Kabat-ZinnFounder of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program
For thousands of years, the religions, movements and philosophers of the various iterations of 'us' have espoused mindfulness as being an essential life-skill, bringing us from wherever we may be to the here and now- where we are at our most alive.
— Jon Kabat-ZinnFounder of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program
We spend a huge amount of our lives away from the immediacy of our existence, lost in reflections on the past or anxieties of the future. This misadventure in episodic memory takes a huge toll on us, leading to stress, anxiety, depression and exacerbating a range of complex medical and psychological conditions we may have.
— Jon Kabat-ZinnFounder of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program
Looking back, it was one of the best things that could've happened to me.
— Manny PacquiaoWorld Champion Boxer & Philippine Senator
My hands have been known mostly for the leather gloves that I've used as an instrument to punish opposing fighters. Outside the ring, though, I want my legacy to be the man with bare hands that offered kindness and hope to those in need.
— Manny PacquiaoWorld Champion Boxer & Philippine Senator
I wasn't just fighting for myself. I was fighting for an entire country and millions of fans around the world who believe in me. That is why I will always give 100% in and out of the ring.
— Manny PacquiaoWorld Champion Boxer & Philippine Senator
There are really no defeats in life, just opportunities to become better, stronger.
— Manny PacquiaoWorld Champion Boxer & Philippine Senator
Excellence is not about perfection, it's about consistency and the relentless pursuit of something better. Every dish is an opportunity to elevate the craft.
— Alain DucasseRenowned French Chef with Multiple Michelin-Starred Restaurants Worldwide
Sustainability isn't a trend in our kitchen - it's a responsibility. We have to think about the future of our planet with every dish we create.
— Dominique CrennFirst female chef in France to receive three Michelin stars