Search results for “Brainpickings ten years on”
Werner Herzog on Creativity, Self-Reliance, and How to Make a Living Doing What You Love
“If your project has real substance, ultimately the money will follow you like a common cur in the street with its tail between its legs.”
A Field Guide to Getting Lost: Rebecca Solnit on How We Find Ourselves
“The things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is on the other side of that transformation… Never to get lost is not to live.”
Swami Vivekananda on the Secret of Work: Intelligent Consolation for the Pressures of Productivity from 1896
“Every work that we do… every thought that we think, leaves such an impression on the mind-stuff…”
Rethinking the Placebo Effect: How Our Minds Actually Affect Our Bodies
The startling physiological effects of loneliness, optimism, and meditation.
How We Grieve: Meghan O’Rourke on the Messiness of Mourning and Learning to Live with Loss
“The people we most love do become a physical part of us, ingrained in our synapses, in the pathways where memories are created.”
Bukowski’s Letter of Gratitude to the Man Who Helped Him Quit His Soul-Sucking Job and Become a Full-Time Writer
“To not have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.”
Edna St. Vincent Millay on the Death Penalty and What It Really Means to Be an Anarchist
“The minds of your children are like clear pools, reflecting faithfully whatever passes on the bank…”
The Art of Self-Renewal: The Pioneering Social Scientist John Gardner on How to Keep Your Work and Your Spirit Alive Over the Long Run
“The self-renewing man … looks forward to an endless and unpredictable dialogue between his potentialities an the claims of life – not only the claims he encounters but the claims he invents.”
Anna Deavere Smith on Discipline and Learning to Stop Letting Others Define You
“What you are will show, ultimately. Start now, every day, becoming, in your actions, your regular actions, what you would like to become in the bigger scheme of things.”
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