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On Children: Poignant Parenting Advice from Kahlil Gibran
On Children: Poignant Parenting Advice from Kahlil Gibran

“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself… You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow…”

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Walt Whitman’s Advice on Living a Vibrant and Rewarding Life
Walt Whitman’s Advice on Living a Vibrant and Rewarding Life

“Love the earth and sun and the animals… re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul…”

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Poetry: I Too, Dislike It
Poetry: I Too, Dislike It

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Mary Oliver on the Measure of a Life Well Lived and How to Magnify Your Aliveness
Mary Oliver on the Measure of a Life Well Lived and How to Magnify Your Aliveness

“Do you need a prod? Do you need a little darkness to get you going?”

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Marianne Moore on the Three Elements of Persuasive Writing
Marianne Moore on the Three Elements of Persuasive Writing

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How to Keep Criticism from Sinking Your Soul: Walt Whitman and the Discipline of Creative Confidence
How to Keep Criticism from Sinking Your Soul: Walt Whitman and the Discipline of Creative Confidence

“I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or be understood.”

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3 Kinds of Loneliness and 4 Kinds of Forever
3 Kinds of Loneliness and 4 Kinds of Forever

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The Third Thing: Poet Donald Hall on the Secret to Lasting Love
The Third Thing: Poet Donald Hall on the Secret to Lasting Love

“Third things are essential to marriages, objects or practices or habits or arts or institutions or games or human beings that provide a site of joint rapture or contentment.”

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The Wildest Bet Is the Winning Bet
The Wildest Bet Is the Winning Bet

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Walt Whitman’s Field Guide to Being Yourself: The Trial and Triumph of Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman’s Field Guide to Being Yourself: The Trial and Triumph of Leaves of Grass

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