Anaïs Nin on Defeat

“Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms, like books written in a truly foreign language.”

In the early stages of our Solar System, there were three life-friendly planets: Venus, Earth, and Mars. Only Earth thrived. Here’s why.

If you see life as only a source of suffering and misery, why bring anyone else into that? This belief, called anti-natalism, is on the rise.

According to environmental activist and author Bill McKibben, the third world war is well underway: it is a battle between human beings and a changing climate, and the humans are losing. But there’s still hope.

“I don’t like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn’t of much value. Life hasn’t revealed its beauty to them.” – Boris Pasternak (born on this date in 1890)