Reads tagged with “psychology”
An Experiment in Love: Martin Luther King, Jr. on the Six Pillars of Nonviolent Resistance and the Ancient Greek Notion of ‘Agape’
“Along the way of life, someone must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate. This can only be done by projecting the ethic of love to the center of our lives.”
The Art of Constructive Criticism: Trailblazing Feminist Margaret Fuller Rejects Young Thoreau and Helps Him Improve His Writing
“I can have no advice or criticism for a person so sincere; but, if I give my impression of him, I will say, ‘He says too constantly of Nature, she is mine.’ She is not yours till you have been more hers.”
Poet and Philosopher David Whyte on Belonging and How to Be at Home in Yourself
“Our sense of slight woundedness around not belonging is actually one of our core competencies.”
Proust on What Art Does for the Soul and How to Stop Letting Habit Blunt Our Aliveness
“Artists are people who strip habit away and return life to its deserved glory.”
How to Own Your Story: Vivian Gornick on the Art of Personal Narrative and Nuanced Storytelling
“The memoirist … must engage with the world, because engagement makes experience, experience makes wisdom, and finally it’s the wisdom — or rather the movement toward it — that counts.”
Legendary Victorian Art Critic John Ruskin on the Value of Imperfection and How Manual Labor Confers Dignity Upon Creative Work
“It is only by labour that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labour can be made happy, and the two cannot be separated with impunity.”
Joseph Campbell on Why Perfectionism Kills Love and the Pathway to Bliss in Romantic Relationships
“Perfection is inhuman… What evokes our love … is the imperfection of the human being.”
Emerson on What Beauty Really Means, How to Cultivate Its True Hallmarks, and Why It Bewitches the Human Imagination
“The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.”
Beloved Composer Leonard Bernstein on the Importance of Believing in Each Other and How Art Fortifies Our Mutual Dignity
“We must learn to know ourselves better through art. We must rely more on the unconscious, inspirational side of man… We must believe, without fear, in people.”
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