

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: When You Love Someone
"When you love someone, you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is...
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Mary Oliver on Living
"To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life...
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Moya Sarner on Change
"Whether it’s infancy, toddlerhood, childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, midlife, early old age or your final chapter, every new life...
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Anthony Bourdain on People
“Before I set out to travel this world, 12 years ago, I used to believe that the human race as a whole was basically a few steps above...
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Aisha Abbasi on Helplessness
"[O]ur genuine recognition of the helplessness life confronts us with at times is often highlighted and meaningfully recognised when we...
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Iain McGilchrist on Attention
“By paying a certain kind of attention, you can humanise or dehumanise, cherish or strip of all value. By a kind of alienating,...
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Robert Frost: The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I...
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Moya Sarner on Meaningful Therapy
" Meaningful therapy has helped me to understand that what I wanted was not what I needed. That my search for the right answer, born out...
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Lisa Marchiano on Individuation
“Individuation is the slow process of tuning in to your authentic self. It takes a lifetime. It requires you to stay open to life so that...
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Anne Lamott on Truth
“If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must risk placing...
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Philippa Perry on Being Enough
"When we are born, become a child, an adult, do you know what is enough to be enough? Existing. That’s it. A dependent baby is enough...
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Susan Cain on Introversion
“Whoever you are, bear in mind that appearance is not reality. Some people act like extroverts, but the effort costs them energy,...
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