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“Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
― Carl Sagan

“You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.”
― Stewart O'Nan, The Odds: A Love Story

“We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore.”
― John Powell SJ

“The world of business is becoming one of the great cathedrals of spirit. Businesses are becoming places in which meaning can be created, in which mutuality begins to happen. Business is the force in the world that is fulfilling every major value of the great spiritual traditions: intimacy, trust, a shared vision, cooperation, collaboration, friendship, and ultimately love. After all, what is love at its core? It is the movement of evolution to higher and higher levels of mutuality, recognition, union and embrace.”
― Marc Gafni

“The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.”
― Lester Bangs

“The human face has limited space. If you fill it with laughter there will be no room for crying.”
― Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance

“people oriented toward autonomy and intrinsic motivation have higher self-esteem, better interpersonal relationships, and greater general well-being than those who are extrinsically motivated.”
― Daniel H. Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

“We cannot be happy when we betray what we value most.”
― Fred Kofman, Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values

“No matter what others do, as Gandhi exhorted, you can “become the change [you] want to see in the world.”
― Fred Kofman, Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values

“discipline is a direct consequence of conscious choice and response-ability, the capacity to enact a course of action that is congruent with our purpose and ethics.”
― Fred Kofman, Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values

“if you want to live a “good life,” you must subordinate success to integrity, not vice versa.”
― Fred Kofman, Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values

“the goal of an organization is to fulfill its mission, acting in alignment with ethical and legal standards.”
― Fred Kofman, Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values

“Happiness comes from integrity rather than success, from behavior in alignment with essential values rather than winning or losing.”
― Fred Kofman, Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values

“David Whyte says, the soul can grow from any experience.”
― Fred Kofman, Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values

“We do not see things as they are.
We see things as we are.
THE TALMUD”
― Fred Kofman, Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values

“It is easy to understand why people assume that conflicts are inherently destructive; however, the energy of conflict is not inherently destructive. The negative consequences that we observe daily stem from our inability to manage conflicts constructively. To live full, productive lives, we need to learn how to handle conflicts. Avoidance is not an option.”
― Fred Kofman, Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values

“Trust implies accountability, predictability, reliability.
It’s what sells products and keeps organizations humming.
Trust is the glue that maintains organizational integrity.”
― Fred Kofman, Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values

“Economic life ... depends on moral bonds of social trust.”
― Fred Kofman, Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values

“A culture of “lone rangers”—where the most competent is the one who asks for the least help—wreaks havoc in organizations.”
― Fred Kofman, Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values

“they transformed the problem into an opportunity by stepping up to the accountability plate.”
― Fred Kofman, Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values

“Emerson remarked, “What you do speaks so loudly, that I cannot hear what you say.”
― Fred Kofman, Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values

“A leader who does not recognize integrity, on the other hand, discourages passionate dedication.”
― Fred Kofman, Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values

“There are five basic competencies for working with your emotions: self-awareness, self-acceptance, self-regulation, self-inquiry, and self-expression.”
― Fred Kofman, Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values

“Compassionate acceptance and critical analysis are equally necessary for emotional mastery.”
― Fred Kofman, Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values

“Emotions are good advisors, but terrible masters.”
― Fred Kofman, Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values

“Emotional mastery requires that you be more interested in being effective than in saving face.”
― Fred Kofman, Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values

“forgiveness releases the painful past through an act of will.”
― Fred Kofman, Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values

“Nothing defuses emotions like your own relaxed and centered stance.”
― Fred Kofman, Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values

“Taking a conscious breath is the simplest way to reengage your awareness and choice.”
― Fred Kofman, Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values