Search results for “Lisbeth Zwerger”
William James on the Psychology of the Second Wind and What Enables Us to Transcend Our Limits
“Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake… We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources.”
On Being Too Much for Ourselves: Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips on Balance and the Necessary Excesses of Life
“There are situations in which it is more dangerous to keep your balance than to lose it.”
Wanderlust: Rebecca Solnit on Walking and the Mind
“I suspect that the mind, like the feet, works at about three miles an hour. If this is so, then modern life is moving faster than the speed of thought, or thoughtfulness.”
Turning Trauma into Power: Marina Abramović on How Her Harrowing Childhood Became the Raw Material for Her Art
“You know you are an artist if you have to do art — it’s like breathing and you have no choice. Nothing should be able to stop you.”
Simone Weil on Temptation, the Key to Discipline, and How to Be a Complete Human Being
“Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.”
24-Year-Old William Styron on Happiness, Presence, and the True Measure of Maturity, in a Letter to His Father
“I’ll always hate the stupid and the bat-brained and the petty. But it doesn’t seem nearly so important anymore to hate, as try to understand.”
Teenage Sylvia Plath’s Letters to Her Mother on the Joy of Living and Writing as Salvation and Sustenance for the Spirit
“I want to be affected by life deeply, but never so blinded that I cannot see my share of existence in a wry, humorous light…”
Kierkegaard on Popular Opinion, the Petty Jealousies of Criticism, and the Only Cure for Embitterment in Creative Work
“I need the enchantment of creative work to help me forget life’s mean pettinesses.”
The Road to Character: David Brooks on the Art of Stumbling, “Résumé Virtues” vs. “Eulogy Virtues,” and the Humility Code of Living a Meaningful Life
“We are all stumblers, and the beauty and meaning of life are in the stumbling.”
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