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“There is nothing either good or bad,” as Shakespeare wrote in Hamlet, “but thinking makes it so.
Pico Iyer • The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere (TED Books)
... See moreTo enjoy life, we might have to stop thinking about what we will never be able to read and watch and say and do, and start to think of how to enjoy the world within our boundaries. To live on a human scale. To focus on the few things we can do, rather than the millions of things we can’t. To not crave parallel lives. To find a smaller mathematics.
The art of living, like any other art, is the art of learning to work creatively within the constraints of the medium.
L. M. Sacasas • The Art of Living
Our super-safe environments may fundamentally shift our psychology. When you’re born into a land of milk and honey, it makes sense to adopt what ecologists refer to as a “slow life history strategy”—instead of driving drunk and having unprotected sex, you go to Pilates and worry about your 401(k). People who are playing life on slow mode care a lot... See more
Adam Mastroianni • The Decline of Deviance
Daylight | A More Caring Computer
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Business ideas that bring a 'zing'
“We refuse to accept a future where our devices are exhausting, addictive, and distracting.”
Winnicott on the Qualities of a Healthy Mind and a Healthy Relationship
Maria Popovathemarginalian.orgOn love, limerence, and other-significant-others
“I have always felt that a human being could only be saved by another human being,” James Baldwin wrote in one of his finest essays. “I am aware that we do not save each other very often. But I am also aware that we save each other some of the time.”
What’s more precious when one is young — that loose sensation of complete possibility, or the soundness of maturing under an affectionate wing?
lillian fishman • Would You Rather Have Married Young?
If one is told constantly that the epitome of personal “empowerment” and self-actualization is precisely that one should never sacrifice anything of the self and its desires—to always prioritize “finding yourself,” “staying true to yourself,” and maximizing autonomy—then the formation of deeper relationships is made effectively impossible.