Love
“The work of creating health is the work of creating connection.”
–Didi Pershouse
–Didi Pershouse
Curtis Ogden • Principles for Network Thinking and Action
Entrepreneur Phil Levin on the importance of neighborhoods:
"You are going to spend 1000x more time in your surrounding 5 blocks than you will in any other neighborhood in your city. Thinking about all the things that New York City has—or the next city has—is a lot less important than thinking about the things within the five blocks where you live.
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"You are going to spend 1000x more time in your surrounding 5 blocks than you will in any other neighborhood in your city. Thinking about all the things that New York City has—or the next city has—is a lot less important than thinking about the things within the five blocks where you live.
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Ickes finds that the longer many couples are married, the less accurate they are at reading each other. They lock in some early version of who their spouse is, and over the years, as the other person changes, that version stays fixed—and they know less and less about what’s actually going on in the other’s heart and mind.
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
How to Love the World More: George Saunders on the Courage of Uncertainty
Maria Popovathemarginalian.org
How to love the world more.
The good life is one inspired by love
and guided by knowledge.
(Bertrand Russell)
18. How you love, how you give, and how you suffer is just about the sum of who you are. Everything in life is a subset of one or a combinatorial function of all three. Seek people who love and give generously, who have the strength to suffer without causing damage. (Only strong people are safe people, the measure of strength being not the absence... See more
Maria Popova • 18 Life-Learnings From 18 Years of the Marginalian
Writer and activist James Baldwin on what love looks like:
"The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love — whether we call it friendship or family or romance — is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other's light."
"The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love — whether we call it friendship or family or romance — is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other's light."
3-2-1: On saving money, controlling your anger, and what love looks like
