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You tried to change didn’t you? Closed your mouth more, tried to be softer, prettier, less volatile, less awake... You can’t make homes out of human beings. Someone should have already told you that.

Warsan Shire

As with the factory, so with the office: in an assembly line, the smaller the piece of work assigned to any single individual, the less skill it requires, and the less likely the possibility that doing it well will lead to doing something more intere...

Jill Lepore

One of the greatest myths in the world - & the phrase 'greatest myths' is just a fancy way of saying 'big fat lies' -- is that troublesome things get less & less troublesome if you do them more & more. People say this myth when they are teaching chil...

The Ersatz Elevator

Huddled in her mink in the Kansas City airport, she had a vision of women writing about sex as openly as male writers, but quite, quite differently. Some women would treat sex much as men did,as conquest, as adventure--in a way as McCarthy had. Other...

Gone to Soldiers

Sardar Harbans Singh passed away peacefully in a wicker rocking-chair in a Srinigar garden of spring flowers and honeybees with his favourite tartan rug across his knees and his beloved son, Yuvraj the exporter of handicrafts, by his side, and when h...

Shalimar the Clown

Humanity is a huge aggregate lie, and a huge lie is less than a small truth. Humanity is less, far less than the individual because the individual may sometimes be capable of truth, and humanity is a tree of lies. And they say that love is greatest t...

Women in Love

The modern ignorance is in people's assumption that they can outsmart their own nature. It is in the arrogance that will believe nothing that cannot be proved, and respect nothing it cannot understand, and value nothing it cannot sell . . . The hard ...

Wendell Berry

...Newspapers, popular fiction, and magazines churned out words by the million, and the worn coins of everyday speech were less and less able to communicate anything more than the most commonplace meanings....

The Dedalus Book of the Occult: A Dark Muse

I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not to be done at all.

Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

In the second half of life, people have less power to infatuate you. But they also have much less power to control you or hurt you.

Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

There are a lot of different ways of building a prosperous society, and some of them use much less energy than others. And it is possible and more practical to talk about rebuilding systems to use much less energy than it is to think about trying to ...

Alex Steffen

Seek peace and pursue it.' ~Psalm 34:14

The 3 Secrets to Effective Time Investment: Achieve More Success with Less Stress: Foreword by Cal Newport, Author of So Good They Can't Ignore You

Change your experience of life.

The 3 Secrets to Effective Time Investment: Achieve More Success with Less Stress: Foreword by Cal Newport, Author of So Good They Can't Ignore You

It is not selfishness or unselfishness that distinguishes love from non-love; it is the aim of the action.

The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth

The act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth.

The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth

Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable.

The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth

We cannot be a source for strength unless we nurture our own strength.

The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth

Her ability to use language, that thing that most separates humans from animals, was leaving her, and she was feeling less and less human as it departed. She's said a tearful good-bye to okay some time ago.

Still Alice

The question of what exactly we remember when we listen to old recordings, or whether it can be called remembering at all, becomes less and less answerable over a lifetime.

Sonata for Jukebox: An Autobiography of My Ears

As you know Jesus more, you naturally love Him more. The less you know of Him, the less you love. To know Jesus is to love Him.

Static Jedi: The Art of Hearing God Through the Noise