Search results for “Lisbeth Zwerger”
The Difference Between Routine and Ritual: How to Master the Balancing Act of Controlling Chaos and Finding Magic in the Mundane
“The wonder of life is often most easily recognizable through habits and routines.”
Kierkegaard on Boredom, Why Cat Listicles Fail to Answer the Soul’s Cry, and the Only True Cure for Existential Emptiness
“The more a person limits himself, the more resourceful he becomes.”
How We Become Who We Are: Meghan Daum on Nostalgia, Aging, and Why We Romanticize Our Imperfect Younger Selves
“Life is mostly an exercise in being something other than what we used to be while remaining fundamentally—and sometimes maddeningly—who we are.”
MacArthur Geniuses on the Relationship Between Uncertainty and Creativity
“Cut short of the floundering and you’ve cut short the possible creative outcomes. Cheat on the chaotic stumbling-about, and you’ve robbed yourself of the raw stuff that feeds the imagination.”
The Paradox of Active Surrender: Jeanette Winterson on How Learning to Understand Art Transforms Us
“True art, when it happens to us, challenges the ‘I’ that we are.”
Astrophysicist Janna Levin on Free Will and Whether the Universe Is Infinite or Finite, in Letters to Her Mother
“The simpler the insight, the more profound the conclusion.”
Conscience and Spirit: Leo Tolstoy on Why Humans Drink
“The seeing, spiritual being, whose manifestation we commonly call conscience, always points with one end towards right and with the other towards wrong, and we do not notice it while we follow the course it shows.”
The Art of Quickness: Italo Calvino on Digression as a Hedge Against Death and the Key to Great Writing
“Success consists in felicity of verbal expression, which every so often may result from a quick flash of inspiration but as a rule involves a patient search… for the sentence in which every word is unalterable.”
Showroom vs. Sanctuary: Rebecca Solnit on What Our Dream Homes Reveal about Our Interior Lives
“The dream of a house can be the eternally postponed preliminary step to taking up the lives we wish we were living.”
ABOUT
CONTACT
SUPPORT
SUBSCRIBE
Newsletter
RSS
CONNECT
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram
Tumblr