Reads tagged with “psychology”
Anne Lamott on Forgiveness, Self-Forgiveness, and the Relationship Between Brokenness and Joy
“We are hardwired with curiosity inside us, because life knew that this would keep us going even in bad sailing… Life feeds anyone who is open to taste its food, wonder, and glee — its immediacy.”
Against Common Sense: Vladimir Nabokov on the Wellspring of Wonder and Why the Belief in Goodness Is a Moral Obligation
“This capacity to wonder at trifles — no matter the imminent peril — these asides of the spirit, these footnotes in the volume of life are the highest forms of consciousness, and it is in this childishly speculative state of mind, so different from commonsense and its logic, that we know the world to be good.”
How to Make Difficult Decisions: Benjamin Franklin’s Pioneering Pros and Cons Framework
A worksheet for the moral mathematics of decision-making from America’s original prophet of self-improvement.
Loving vs. Being in Love: Jane Welsh Carlyle on Navigating the Heart’s Contradictions
“A passion, like the torrent in the violence of its course, might perhaps too, like the torrent, leave ruin and desolation behind… My love for you… is deep and calm, more like the quiet river, which refreshes and beautifies where it flows.”
The Difficult Art of Giving Space in Love: Rilke on Freedom, Togetherness, and the Secret to a Good Marriage
“I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other.”
How to Break a Code: 100-Year-Old Insight from Cryptography Pioneers William and Elizebeth Friedman
“Deciphering is both a science and an art… In no other science are the rules and principles so little followed and so often broken; and in no other art is the part played by reasoning and logic so great.”
Incubation, Ideation, and the Art of Editing: Beethoven on Creativity
“I carry my thoughts about with me for a long time, sometimes a very long time, before I set them down.”
Elizabeth Gilbert on Love, Loss, and How to Move Through Grief as Grief Moves Through You
“Grief is a force of energy that cannot be controlled or predicted. It comes and goes on its own schedule. Grief does not obey your plans, or your wishes. Grief will do whatever it wants to you, whenever it wants to. In that regard, Grief has a lot in common with Love.”
The Integrity of Parting Ways: Rilke on Unwounding Separation and the Difficult Art of Reimagining Broken Relationships
“Nothing locks people in error as much as the daily repetition of error.”
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