March 2012
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Happiness is good for the body, but it is grief which develops the strengths of...
– Marcel Proust, French novelist, critic, and essayist
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Stanford neuroscientists host the world’s first love competition, asking contestants between the ages of 10 and 75 to spend 5 minutes in an fMRI machine thinking deeply about the person they love. The results are certain to bring a tear to your eye.
Complementary reading: 5 essential books on the psychology of love.
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To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water...
– John Burroughs, naturalist and writer
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Vulnerability is absolutely essential to wholehearted living… It is our most...
– Researcher-storyteller Brené Brown, author of The Gifts of Imperfection,at TED 2012. Get a taste for her fascinating work on vulnerability with her 2010 TEDxHouston talk.
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It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth...
– János Arany, Hungarian journalist and poet
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Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They...
– Arthur Schopenhauer, philosopher