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Tennessee Williams on Love and How the Very Thing Worth Saving Is the Thing That Will Save Us
“We live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must save from it, all the time, is love.”
Anatomy of Hatred: The Paradoxical Psychology of How That Which Repels Us Binds Us
“The closer the likeness … the more virulent the hatred.”
Erich Fromm on What Self-Love Really Means
“In the experience of love lies the only answer to being human, lies sanity.”
Undersea: Rachel Carson’s Lyrical and Revolutionary 1937 Masterpiece Inviting Humans to Explore Earth from the Perspective of Other Creatures
“Against this cosmic background the lifespan of a particular plant or animal appears, not as drama complete in itself, but only as a brief interlude in a panorama of endless change.”
16 Overall Favorite Books of 2016
From loneliness to love to black holes, by way of Neil Gaiman, Annie Dillard, and Mary Oliver.
Audre Lorde on Kinship Across Difference and the Importance of Unity Within Movements for Equality and Social Change
“How can we use each other’s differences in our common battles for a livable future?”
You Are Not the Target: Laura Huxley on Course-Correcting the Paths of Love and Not-Love
“In all its manifestations and however it is produced, not-love tends to beget not-love. The energy of love is needed to reconvert not-love into love.”
Political Emotions: Philosopher Martha Nussbaum on How to Tame Our Raging Reactivity and Nurture Our Noblest Civic Selves
“We need … to investigate, and to cherish, whatever helps us to see the uneven and often unlovely destiny of human beings in the world with humor, tenderness, and delight, rather than with absolutist rage for an impossible sort of perfection.”
Sociologist Anne Wortham on Authenticity, the Real Meaning of Individualism, and the Choice to Abstain from Activism
“A civilized society is one whose members expect that each will address at all times, as far as possible, the rational in man.”
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