Search results for “mercy”
Philosopher Martha Nussbaum on Anger, Forgiveness, the Emotional Machinery of Trust, and the Only Fruitful Response to Betrayal in Intimate Relationships
“All too often, anger becomes an alluring substitute for grieving, promising agency and control when one’s real situation does not offer control… Anger is often well-grounded, but it is too easy for it to hijack the necessary mourning process.”
David Whyte on Vulnerability, Presence, and How Surrendering to the Uncontrollable Magnifies Your Life
“Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you.”
The 15 Best Books of 2015
Rewarding reflections on time, love, loss, courage, creativity, and other transformations of the heart.
A New and Sweeping Utopia of Life: Gabriel García Márquez’s Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
An ennobled vision for a world “where no one will be able to decide for others how they die, where love will prove true and happiness be possible.”
How the Clouds Got Their Names and How Goethe Popularized Them with His Science-Inspired Poems
“Most pioneers are at the mercy of doubt at the beginning, whether of their worth, of their theories, or of the whole enigmatic field in which they labour.”
What It’s Like to Be Transgender: A Piercing Poem by Slam Poet and TED Fellow Lee Mokobe
“Can you see how easy it is to talk people into coffins…”
Albert Camus on Strength of Character and How to Save Our Sanity in Difficult Times
“In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
Thomas Wolfe on Ambition, Gratitude, and the True Measure of Success, in Letters to His Mother
“It is not all bad, but it is not all good, it is not all ugly, but it is not all beautiful, it is life, life, life — the only thing that matters.”
Louise Bourgeois on Art, Integrity, the Trap of False Humility, and the Key to Creative Confidence
“To be an artist is a guarantee to your fellow humans that the wear and tear of living will not let you become a murderer.”
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