Brain Pickings Quotes

“The cult of productivity has its place, but worshipping at its altar daily robs us of the very capacity for joy and wonder that makes life worth living.”
― Maria Popova, Brain Pickings

“Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity.”
― Maria Popova, Brain Pickings

“I was learning about it along the way, often through reading, often from people and ideas marginalized by culture, erased by the collective selective memory we call history”
― Maria Popova, Brain Pickings

“If it is worthy — the book, as the love — and if we are lucky, it reflects us back to ourselves magnified yet transformed”
― Maria Popova, Brain Pickings

“To live in a world without forgiveness, she intimates, is to make of life an instant fossil record”
― Maria Popova, Brain Pickings

“Unlike critical thinking, that pillar of reason and necessary counterpart to hope, [cynicism] is inherently uncreative, unconstructive, and spiritually corrosive.”
― Maria Popova, Brain Pickings