To understand and be understood, those are among life's greatest gifts, and every interaction is an opportunity to exchange them

- Maria Popova

In order for us to truly create and contribute to the world, we have to be able to connect countless dots, to cross-pollinate ideas from a wealth of …

- Maria Popova

Be generous with your time and your resources and with giving credit and, especially, with your words. It's so much easier to be a critic than a cele…

- Maria Popova

We are a collage of our interests, our influences, our inspirations, all the fragmentary impressions we've collected by being alive and awake to the …

- Maria Popova

Be curious. Be constantly, consistently, indiscriminatel y curious.

- Maria Popova

Curation is more than packaging-it is to help readers [discern] what is important in the world.

- Maria Popova

This is the power of art: The power to transcend our own self-interest, our solipsistic zoom-lens on life, and relate to the world and each other wit…

- Maria Popova

Life is a continual process of arrival into who we are.

- Maria Popova

When people tell you who they are, Maya Angelou famously advised, believe them. Just as importantly, however, when people try to tell you who you are…

- Maria Popova