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The Great Czech Playwright Turned Dissident Turned President Václav Havel on Hope
“Hope… is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously headed for early success, but, rather, an ability to work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.”
Underland: An Enchanting Journey into the Hidden Universe Beneath Our Feet
“Into the underland we have long placed that which we fear and wish to lose, and that which we love and wish to save.”
Meditations on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp: Polish Painter Józef Czapski on Literature, Survival, and the Human Soul
“The slow and painful transformation of a passionate and narrowly egotistical being into a man who gives himself over wholly to some great work or other that devours him, destroys him, lives in his blood, is a trial every creative being must endure.”
Visionary Maps of Time, Space, and Thought by America’s First Female Cartographer and Information Visualization Designer
Revolutions in design and education technology, underpinned by the conviction that women “are an essential part of the body politic, whose corruption or improvement must affect the whole.”
Visionary Photographer Edward Weston on the Importance of Cross-Disciplinary Curiosity in Creative Work
“In this age of communication… who can be free from influence, — preconception? But — it all depends upon what one does with this cross-fertilization: — is it digested, or does it bring indigestion?”
20-Year-Old Lord Byron’s Moving Elegy for His Beloved Dog
“To mark a friend’s remains these stones arise; / I never knew but one — and here he lies.”
Eating the Sun: A Lovely Illustrated Celebration of Wonder, the Science of How the Universe Works, and the Existential Mystery of Being Human
“When one is considering the universe, unseen matter, our small backyard of the stuff, I think it is important, sensible even, to try and find some balance between laughter and uncontrollable weeping.”
Altered States of Consciousness: The Neuropsychology of How Time Perception Modulates Our Experience of Self, from Depression to Boredom to Creative Flow
“The brain does not simply represent the world in a disembodied way as an intellectual construct… Our mind is body-bound. We think, feel, and act with our body in the world. All experience is embedded in this body-related being-in-the-world.”
Marcus Aurelius on Embracing Mortality and the Key to Living with Presence
“The longest-lived and those who will die soonest lose the same thing. The present is all that they can give up, since that is all you have, and what you do not have, you cannot lose.”
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