Reads tagged with “love”
How Hans Christian Andersen Turned His Heartbreak into One of the Most Beloved Fairy Tales of All Time
Of harmonizing sorrow into song.
Beginnings at the End of Love: Rebecca West’s Extraordinary Love Letter to H.G. Wells in the Wake of Heartbreak
“I am always at a loss when I meet hostility, because I can love and I can do practically nothing else.”
Relationship Happiness and Your DNA: How One Gene Encodes Emotional Sensitivity
Inside the nuanced science of serotonin and the underappreciated upside of being a sensitive creature.
The Conflicted Love Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Margaret Fuller: How an Intense Unclassifiable Relationship Shaped the History of Modern Thought
We suffer by wanting different things often at odds with one another, but we suffer even more by wanting to want different things.
The Complementarity of Multiple Loves: The Victorian Philosopher Edward Carpenter on How Freedom Strengthens Togetherness in Long-Term Relationships
“Sympathy with and understanding of the person one lives with must be cultivated to the last degree possible, because it is a condition of any real and permanent alliance. And it may even go so far (and should go so far) as a frank understanding and tolerance of such person’s other loves.”
Margaret Atwood on Marriage
“Marriage is not a house or even a tent…”
I Like You: An Almost Unbearably Lovely Vintage Illustrated Ode to Friendship
A touching serenade to the little things that add up to the bigness of a true platonic love.
Lorraine Hansberry, the Love of Freedom, and the Freedom of Love
“Ahead of her time, Lorraine’s witness and wisdom help us understand the world, its problems and its possibilities. In her lonely reckonings, her impassioned reaching for justice, and the seriousness of her craft, she teaches us how to more ethically, more lovingly, witness one another today.”
My Heart: An Emotional Intelligence Primer in the Form of an Uncommonly Tender Illustrated Poem About Our Capacity for Love
“My heart is a shadow, a light and a guide. Closed or open… I get to decide.”
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