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Psychologist Bella DePaulo sums it up nicely. ‘People who like being single, who choose to be single, are threatening cherished world views about

Catherine Gray • The Unexpected Joy of Being Single

This will always be your struggle whether you are twenty-one or fifty-one. I know this from experience. When I quit the New York Times to be a full-time mother, the voices of the world said that I was nuts. When I quit it again to be a full-time novelist, they said I was nuts again. But I am not nuts. I am happy. I am successful on my own terms. Be... See more

James Clear • 1999 Mount Holyoke Commencement Speech

The philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti puts it this way: “It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” Perhaps it can also be said that it’s a sign of health (or not a sign of illness) to be maladjusted to a profoundly sick society?

Jonathan Carson • A Call to Rebellion: A New Story About Depression

A number of observational studies have indicated that volunteering is associated with improvements in various aspects of well-being. In some sense, volunteering and regularly participating in various volunteering activities and organizations is a commitment to repeated acts of kindness, generally directed to an important goal of improving the life ... See more

Harvard University • How to Flourish: Practical Activities Supported by Scientific Research

By the age of twenty-five, Susan B. Anthony had made a conscious choice to remain single.

Stephen Cope • The Great Work of Your Life: A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling

the quality of our lives and the health of our society depends, to a large degree, on how well we treat each other in the minute interactions of daily life.

David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

People don’t lie to you about who they are – they lie to themselves in your presence

Lisa Feldman Barrett • Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain | Lex Fridman Podcast #140

I count myself among a growing number of scientists who believe that the construction of self identity is not much better than the Lo-fi representations of other people we hold in our heads.

Gregory Berns • The Self Delusion

I don’t think most people are good, or bad, for that matter. I think people are neutral. From a distance, they look almost interchangeable. It seems to me that “good people” can become “bad people” when provided the opportunity within an existing power structure—to claim and exert power at a deadly cost to others and get away with it.