Reads tagged with “psychology”
The Banquet of Life: Some of the Finest Advice on Growing Old, Growing Young, and Becoming Your Fullest Self
“People ask: ‘Would you or would you not like to be young again?’ Of course, it is really one of those foolish questions that never should be asked, because they are impossible… You cannot unroll that snowball which is you: there is no ‘you’ except your life — lived.”
The Thing Itself: C.S. Lewis on What We Long for in Our Existential Longing
“…only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never visited.”
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.”
The Milky Way, the Pond, and the Meaning of Life: Thoreau on Solitude, Sympathy, and the Salve for Melancholy
“There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still.”
Sappho and the Fevered Heart: Anne Carson on Jealousy
“…greener than grass I am and dead — or almost I seem to me.”
Relationship Rupture and the Limbic System: The Physiology of Abandonment and Separation
“A relationship is a physiologic process, as real and as potent as any pill or surgical procedure.”
Henry Miller on the Secret to Growth, in Art and in Life
“The reality is always there, and it is preceded by vision. And if one keeps looking steadily the vision crystallizes into fact or deed. There is no escaping it. It doesn’t matter what route one travels.”
Eric Berne on the True Meaning of Intimacy, the Greatest Obstacle to It, and How to Transcend It
“A star is the glowing light inside the other person, distantly seen, brave soul’s tiny flame, too bright to approach without great courage and integrity.”
Nick Cave on Songwriting, Truth, and the Mystery of the Unconscious
“Metaphor can create a merciful sense of distance from the cruel idea, or the unspeakable truth, and allow it to exist within us as a kind of poetic radiance, as a work of art.”
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