“Holistic resilience is the art of recovery from disruption - a framework for healing, empowerment, and building resilience in every area of life.”
Source: Holistic Wealth (Expanded and Updated): 36 Life Lessons to Help You Recover from Disruption, Find Your Life Purpose, and Achieve Financial Freedom
“Holistic Resilience is the 21st-century way to recover from life's biggest disruptions.”
“Holistic resilience is not about pushing harder; it's about restoring your nervous system, reclaiming your identity, and embracing both personal and collective healing after life's disruptions.”
“Holistic resilience is the art of recovery from disruption, and it's the key to holistic success and a more empowered future for ourselves and generations to come”
Source: Holistic Wealth (Expanded and Updated): 36 Life Lessons to Help You Recover from Disruption, Find Your Life Purpose, and Achieve Financial Freedom
“Every disruption carries within it the seeds of a new identity. Holistic resilience is the soil that helps those seeds grow.”
“As long as scepticism is based on a sound understanding of science it is invaluable, for that is how science progresses. But poor criticism can lead those who are unfamiliar with the science involved into doubting everything about climate change predictions.”
Source: The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth
“To modernize their sleeping habits, [Peter the Great] declared, 'Ladies and gentlemen of the court caught sleeping with their boots on will be instantly decapitated.”
“Russia will never be really civilized, because it was civilized too soon. Peter has a genius for imitation; but he lacked true genius, which is creative and makes all from nothing. ... His first wish was to make Germans or Englishmen, when he ought to have been making Russians; and he prevented his subjects from ever becoming what they might have been by persuading them that they were what they are not.”
Source: The Social Contract
“Halley had become England’s second astronomer royal in 1720, after John Flamsteed’s death. The puritanical Flamsteed had reason to roll over in his grave at this development, since in life he had denounced Halley for drinking brandy and swearing “like a sea-captain.” And of course Flamsteed never forgave Halley, or his accomplice Newton, for pilfering the star catalogs and publishing them against his will.
Well liked by most, kind to his inferiors, Halley ran the observatory with a sense of humor. He added immeasurably to the luster of the place with his observations of the moon and his discovery of the proper motion of the stars—even if it’s true what they say about the night he and Peter the Great cavorted like a couple of schoolboys and took turns pushing each other through hedges in a wheelbarrow.”
Source: Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
“Energetic and inquisitive, he loved to learn new skills, including dentistry, which he practised on any courtier foolish enough to admit to toothache.”
Source: Chronicle of the Russian Tsars, The Reign-by-reign Record of the Rulers of Imperial Russia