Reads tagged with “love”

Mary Oliver on What Attention Really Means and Her Moving Elegy for Her Soul Mate

“Attention without feeling … is only a report.”

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“The more personal you are willing to be and the more intimate you are willing to be about the details of your own life, the more universal you are.”

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Form, Faith, and Freedom: Wendell Berry on What Poetry Teaches Us about the Secret to a Happy Marriage

“The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.”

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The World’s First Children’s Book about a Two-Mom Family

A pioneering picture-book with an enduring message of equality.

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The Little Red Schoolbook: An Honest Vintage Guide to Teenage Sexuality, Education Reform, and Independent Thinking

“Leaders remain leaders only as long as you let them.”

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The Greatest Definition of Love

“Knowledge of each other, not of the flesh but through the flesh, knowledge of self, the real him, the real her, in extremis, the mask slipped from the face…”

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Vladimir Nabokov’s Passionate Love Letters to Véra and His Affectionate Bestiary of Nicknames for Her

“You are the only person I can talk with about the shade of a cloud, about the song of a thought…”

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The Curse of Meh: Why Being Extraordinary Is Not a Matter of Being Universally Liked but of Being Polarizing

“To be universally liked is to be relatively ignored.”

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“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”

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The Actual Algebra of Finding Your Soul Mate

Breaking down the mathematical odds of winning at SoulMateRoulette.

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Reads tagged with “love”

Mary Oliver on What Attention Really Means and Her Moving Elegy for Her Soul Mate

“Attention without feeling … is only a report.”

What Everybody Needs

“The more personal you are willing to be and the more intimate you are willing to be about the details of your own life, the more universal you are.”

Form, Faith, and Freedom: Wendell Berry on What Poetry Teaches Us about the Secret to a Happy Marriage

“The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.”

The World’s First Children’s Book about a Two-Mom Family

A pioneering picture-book with an enduring message of equality.

The Little Red Schoolbook: An Honest Vintage Guide to Teenage Sexuality, Education Reform, and Independent Thinking

“Leaders remain leaders only as long as you let them.”

The Greatest Definition of Love

“Knowledge of each other, not of the flesh but through the flesh, knowledge of self, the real him, the real her, in extremis, the mask slipped from the face…”

Vladimir Nabokov’s Passionate Love Letters to Véra and His Affectionate Bestiary of Nicknames for Her

“You are the only person I can talk with about the shade of a cloud, about the song of a thought…”

The Curse of Meh: Why Being Extraordinary Is Not a Matter of Being Universally Liked but of Being Polarizing

“To be universally liked is to be relatively ignored.”

C.S. Lewis on True Friendship

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”

The Actual Algebra of Finding Your Soul Mate

Breaking down the mathematical odds of winning at SoulMateRoulette.

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Reads tagged with “love”

“Attention without feeling … is only a report.”

“The more personal you are willing to be and the more intimate you are willing to be about the details of your own life, the more universal you are.”

“The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.”

A pioneering picture-book with an enduring message of equality.

“Leaders remain leaders only as long as you let them.”

“Knowledge of each other, not of the flesh but through the flesh, knowledge of self, the real him, the real her, in extremis, the mask slipped from the face…”

“You are the only person I can talk with about the shade of a cloud, about the song of a thought…”

“To be universally liked is to be relatively ignored.”

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”

Breaking down the mathematical odds of winning at SoulMateRoulette.

View Full Site