Reads tagged with “love”

Andy Warhol on Sex and Love

“Romance is finding your fantasy in people who don’t have it.”

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Leo Buscaglia on Education, Industrialized Conformity, and How Stereotypes and Labels Limit Love

“Labels are distancing phenomena. They push us away from each other.”

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How to Turn Down a Marriage Proposal Like Charlotte Brontë

A bold defiance of oppressive gender ideals, packaged as the ultimate it’s-not-you-it’s-me gentle letdown.

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Queer Kids’ Endearing Letters to Judy Blume and Her Timeless Advice to Their Parents

Warm wisdom from the beloved author to console on one of life’s deepest sources of isolation.

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Why Love Needs Space: Applying the Benjamin Franklin Effect to Romantic Relationships

Empirical evidence for the healthy push-and-pull of love.

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How Diego Rivera Met the Fierce Teenage Frida Kahlo and Fell in Love with Her Years Later

“I did not know it then, but Frida had already become the most important fact in my life. And she would continue to be, up to the moment she died…”

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Vincent van Gogh on Art and the Power of Love in Letters to His Brother

“Whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done!”

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John Lennon and Yoko Ono on Love, Animated

“You’ve got to work on it. It is a precious gift, and it’s a plant, and you’ve got to look after it and water it.”

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Love Undetectable: Andrew Sullivan on the Superior Rewards of Friendship in a World Obsessed with Romance

Reflections on the cornerstone of our flourishing.

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April 3, 1920: Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Wedding

“Love is bitter and all there is… the rest is for the emotional beggars of the earth.”

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Reads tagged with “love”

“Romance is finding your fantasy in people who don’t have it.”

“Labels are distancing phenomena. They push us away from each other.”

A bold defiance of oppressive gender ideals, packaged as the ultimate it’s-not-you-it’s-me gentle letdown.

Warm wisdom from the beloved author to console on one of life’s deepest sources of isolation.

Empirical evidence for the healthy push-and-pull of love.

“I did not know it then, but Frida had already become the most important fact in my life. And she would continue to be, up to the moment she died…”

“Whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done!”

“You’ve got to work on it. It is a precious gift, and it’s a plant, and you’ve got to look after it and water it.”

Reflections on the cornerstone of our flourishing.

“Love is bitter and all there is… the rest is for the emotional beggars of the earth.”

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