“The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.”
― All About Love: New Visions
― All About Love: New Visions
“How often attachment is mistaken for love! Even when the relationship is a good one, love is spoiled by attachment, with its insecurity, possessiveness, and pride; and then when love is gone, all you have left to show for it are the “souvenirs” of love, the scars of attachment.”
― The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
― The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
“Great companies don’t hire skilled people and motivate them, they hire already motivated people and inspire them. People are either motivated or they are not. Unless you give motivated people something to believe in, something bigger than their job to work toward, they will motivate themselves to find a new job and you’ll be stuck with whoever’s left.”
― Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
― Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
“I am alarmed by the violence that women do to one another: professional violence, competitive violence, emotional violence. I am alarmed by the willingness of women to enslave other women. I am alarmed by a growing absence of decency on the killing floor of professional women’s worlds.”
― The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
― The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
“Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.”
― All About Love: New Visions
― All About Love: New Visions
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