Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning.

You have within you the power to make choices. You can be responsible.

The most powerful marketing is personal recommendation.

The best minute I spend is the one I invest in people.

Love plows open the hard crust of our personality and exposes the fertile soil below. Love decenters the self. It teaches us that our riches are in another.

Courage is simply doing whatever is needed in pursuit of the vision.

All men of the modern world exist in a state of continual and flagrant antagonism between their conscience and their way of life.

Try this the next time you have to apologize for a bone-headed mistake. Go right at it. The fastest and most efficient means of establishing a quick working relationship is to acknowledge the negative and diffuse it.

10. The book concludes by applying these insights to different continents, highlighting the unique trajectories of each region.

No, a hopeful romantic. Her look tells us she is still in some pain, but that she really is all right. She has learned to love herself regardless of whether or not some man loves her, and she has the self-confidence she lacked before.