Maria Popova spies John Keats combining the two. > “The best of Men have… a kind of spiritual yeast in their frames which creates the ferment of existence — by which a Man is propell’d to act and strive and buffet with Circumstance.” Keats, born on this day in 1795,…
> “One has to spend so many years in learning how to be happy.” George Eliot died 140 years ago today, leaving us some tremendous literature and her lived lesson in why we grow happier as we grow older: https://t.co/WfRKMgNwUs — Maria Popova (@brainpicker) December 22, 2020 [https:…
> View this post on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/CBmJ9d5Dp0h/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading] Okay, now for a small, coruscating delight: face masks featuring centuries-old astronomical art and natural history illustrations. I originally made these just for myself and a handful of beloved humans,…
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> “Every walk is a sort of crusade.” Thoreau, born on this day in 1817, on the spirit of sauntering and the perils, both bodily and spiritual, of a sedentary lifestyle https://t.co/preEwOMytz — Maria Popova (@brainpicker) July 12, 2019 [https://twitter.com/brainpicker/status/1149808654796972038?ref_src=twsrc%…
Lincoln, just called to my attention by Quinta Jurecic [https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/05/impeaching-trump-refuse-accept-unacceptable/590104/?utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_term=2019-05-23T13%3A14%3A05&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=edit-promo] : > I answer: If it ever reach us, it must…
> “Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it.” We lost Gabriel García Márquez 5 years ago today. Here is his formative reading list – 24 books that shaped one of humanity's greatest writers https://t.co/…
> I’m typically averse to interviews (even I wrote into my #Figuring [https://twitter.com/hashtag/Figuring?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] contract that I’d be doing none besides my conversation with the wondrous @GilbertLiz [https://twitter.com/GilbertLiz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] tonight). But then…