Search results for “mercy”
Figuring Forward in an Uncertain World
Consolations from the cosmic scheme.
The Weighing: Jane Hirshfield’s Stunning Ode to Resilience
A well to the groundwater of our strength.
Harriet Hosmer on Art and Ambition: The World’s First Successful Woman Sculptor on What It Takes to Be a Great Artist
“If one knew but one-half the difficulties an artist has to surmount… the public would be less ready to censure him for his shortcomings or slow advancement. The only remedy I know is patience with perseverance, and these are always sure, with a real honest love for art, to produce something.”
Water: A Stunning Celebration of the Element of Life Based on Indian Folklore
“We need nature — water, sun, air — to survive, but she doesn’t really need us. She is generous to us, but she has some conditions, and we have to respect them.”
Life, Loss, and the Wisdom of Rivers
“It’s a mercy that time runs in one direction only, that we see the past but darkly and the future not at all.”
Nature’s Lessons in Gender Equality, Gender Diversity, and True Love: The Male Pregnancy of the Seahorse and the Fearless Trans Fish of the Coral Seas
What the weird, wondrous, otherworldly animals of this precious planet can teach us about being better creatures ourselves.
Through the First Antarctic Night: A Pioneering Polar Explorer on the Resilience of the Human Spirit
“There was a naked fierceness in the scenes, a boisterous wildness in the storms, a sublimity and silence in the still, cold dayless nights, which were too impressive to be entirely overshadowed by the soul-despairing depression.”
Anne Lamott on Love, Despair, and Our Capacity for Change
“We can change. People say we can’t, but we do when the stakes or the pain is high enough. And when we do, life can change. It offers more of itself when we agree to give up our busyness.”
William Blake Illustrates Pioneering Feminist and Political Philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft’s Book of Moral Education for Children
“Good habits, imperceptibly fixed, are far preferable to the precepts of reason.”
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