You know the site brainpickings.org? Dani Shapiro on the Pleasures and Perils of Writing and the Creative Life is one such article.Great thoughts on why we write, why we have to write, the need for endurability (such a great word!) 64,437 talking about this. and the immediacy of the writing life.

You must live and life will be good to you.” Maya Angelou on identity and the meaning of life Maria Popova of brainpickings.org shares some of her favorite books relating to dreams and dreaming. “Life loves the liver of it.

brainpickings.org Virginia Woolf on Finding Beauty in the Uncertainty of Time, Space, and Being Calibration and consolation for those moments when it seems impossible that we should ever again recompose the world’s broken fragments into a harmonious whole. "The earth is heavy and opaque without dreams" Anaïs Nin wrote in her diary in 1940. “Science cannot belong only to scientists — it’s part of how we understand ourselves and the world. If you get a really great article you can spend hours reading it and then all the jumping-off points. My name is Maria Popova and this is my one-woman labor of love.