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The Most Important Thing to Remember About Your Mother
"It is not easy to give closeness and freedom, safety plus danger."
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What It Takes to Be Free
We spend our lives trying to find our power and our freedom. It is not easy: We live in a culture that has distorted the meaning and measure
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Sylvia Plath on Living with the Darkness and Making Art from the Barely Bearable Lightness of Being
"One has to shut off that nagging part of the mind and go on without it with bravo and philosophy."
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Marcus Aurelius on the Good Luck of Your Bad Luck
"What happened could have happened to anyone, but not everyone could have carried on."
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Bob Dylan on the Unconscious Mind and the Ideal Conditions for Creative Work
"People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them."
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Walt Whitman’s Advice on Living a Vibrant and Rewarding Life
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20 Favorite Children’s Books from 20 Years of The Marginalian
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The Dark Wood of the Golden Birds: Margaret Wise Brown’s Lost Masterpiece about Mortality and the Meaning of Life, Newly Illustrated
In early September 1948, a year after she rewilded the landscape of literature with Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown watched the love of
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20 Favorite Books from 20 Years of The Marginalian
It is a beautiful dream, that there is something out there to instruct you how to live — a secret handed down by your parents or your teache
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The Baloney Detection Kit: Carl Sagan’s Timeless Tenets of Critical Thinking
Necessary cognitive fortification against propaganda, pseudoscience, and general falsehood.
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Dostoyevsky, Just After His Death Sentence Was Repealed, on the Meaning of Life
"To be a human being among people and to remain one forever, no matter in what circumstances, not to grow despondent and not to lose heart —
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How to Be Transformed When Things Fall Apart
"Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us."
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The Wildest Bet Is the Winning Bet
We place life’s bets by countless calculations of probability, conscious and unconscious, only to discover over and over how short they fall
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Ursula K. Le Guin on the Meaning of Life
We are the survivors of immense and minute events — violent cosmic collisions and subtle genetic mutations, the deaths of innumerable suns a
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Nathaniel Hawthorne on How to Look and Really See
"The mystery is revealed, and after a breath or two, becomes just as great a mystery as before."
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Introducing the Museum of Delight
After twenty years of making immaterial things with my mind — ideas sculpted of words, questions woven of sentences, translucent vessels for
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How to Hold Your Heart with Golden Hands
One bleak English winter a long time ago, wandering through London in the wake of a relationship that had just unraveled, I walked into an a
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Corrective for a Broken Heart
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How to Be Un-Dead: Notes on Waking Up from the Trance of Near-Living
"Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and rema
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How to Grow Old without Letting Life Become a Parody of Itself
"In old age we should wish still to have passions strong enough to prevent us turning in on ourselves."
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The Constitution of the Inner Country: Leonard Cohen on Language and the Poetry of Presence
"The poem is nothing but information. It is the Constitution of the inner country."
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How to Stop Waiting and Start Living: A Jolt from Henry James
"It wouldn't have been failure to be bankrupt, dishonoured, pilloried, hanged; it was failure not to be anything."
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Love After Life: Nobel-Winning Physicist Richard Feynman’s Extraordinary Letter to His Departed Wife
Where the hard edge of physics meets the vulnerable metaphysics of the human heart.
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When Relationships Change: Anne Morrow Lindbergh on Embracing the Intermittency and Mutability of Love
"All living relationships are in process of change, of expansion, and must perpetually be building themselves new forms."
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