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Poet and Philosopher David Whyte on the Courage and the Necessity of Crises
“Courage is what love looks like when tested by the simple everyday necessities of being alive.”
May Sarton on Anger as Creativity in Reverse and a Safety Valve Against Madness
“The fierce tension in me, when it is properly channeled, creates the good tension for work. But when it becomes unbalanced I am destructive.”
Hermann Hesse on the Three Types of Readers and the Most Transcendent Form of Reading
“At the hour when our imagination and our ability to associate are at their height, we really no longer read what is printed on the paper but swim in a stream of impulses and inspirations that reach us from what we are reading.”
Pioneering Psychologist William James on Attention, Multitasking, and the Mental Habit That Sets Great Minds Apart
“My experience is what I agree to attend to.”
The Hum of the Universe: Shonda Rhimes on Creative Burnout, the Hamster Wheel of Success, and Reclaiming Who We Are from the Workaholic Grip of What We Do
“If the song of my heart ceases to play, can I survive in the silence?”
Making the Impossible Possible: 21-Year-Old Hillary Rodham’s Remarkable 1969 Wellesley College Commencement Speech
“If the only tool we have ultimately to use is our lives, so we use it in the way we can by choosing a way to live that will demonstrate the way we feel and the way we know.”
May Sarton on the Cure for Despair and Why Solitude Is the Seedbed of Self-Discovery
“Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands.”
The Timeless Magic of the Book in the Age of Technology: Hermann Hesse on Why We Read and Always Will
“If anyone wants to try to enclose in a small space, in a single house or a single room, the history of the human spirit and to make it his own, he can only do this in the form of a collection of books.”
The Science of Why February 29 Exists and Poet Jane Hirshfield’s Ode to the Leap Day
“…the made calendar stumbling over the real as a drunk trips over a threshold too low to see.”
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