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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
We all have stories of meeting people who appeared wonderful at first but turned out to be just awful.
These types of people may be a “Dark Triad” personality, @arthurcbrooks writes. The term was coined by the psychologists Delroy Paulhus and Kevin Williams in 2002 for people with three salient personality characteri... See more
instagram.comThis 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