Maria Popova

he cult of productivity has its place, but worshipping at its altar daily robs us of the very capacity for joy and…

— Maria Popova

Universal WiFi. Without a doubt. I am done with being on the train, not having internet. Or having spotty coverage. It's a…

— Maria Popova

Because it is possible to create - creating one's self, willing to be one's self - one has anxiety. One would have…

— Maria Popova

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

— Maria Popova

But most weeks I've gone through 12 books, maybe even 15 some weeks, depending on the length. So I go through my…

— Maria Popova

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

— Maria Popova

What is needed isn't merely tolerance but acceptance, wholehearted and unconditional.

— Maria Popova

I didn't really - at least intellectually and creatively - have a particularly compelling experience in college. But during my junior year,…

— Maria Popova

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

— Maria Popova

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

— Maria Popova

One of my jobs was at a start-up ad agency. They were trying to do things differently, work with socially conscious clients,…

— Maria Popova

You enrich people with creative resources, and over time, these Lego bricks that end up in their heads eventually build this enormous,…

— Maria Popova

Leaving love behind is never easy, for it also asks that we leave behind the part of ourselves that did the loving.…

— Maria Popova

I have bad days. Sometimes I have a lot of bad days. By and large, I think most people fall into a…

— Maria Popova

When I discovered PopTech and other kind of intellectualish, online portals for curiosity. Very quickly, I just got so much more out…

— Maria Popova

Build pockets of stillness into your life. Meditate. Go for walks. Ride your bike going nowhere in particular. There is a creative…

— Maria Popova

I think you need to be a little in love—not necessarily in a romantic sense, although that helps—but to be in love…

— Maria Popova

Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity.

— 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…

— 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…

— Maria Popova

Elegant and lucid . . . a pitch-perfect clarion call, issued not with preachy hubris but from a deep place of humility,…

— Maria Popova

What I pick for my blog and what I pick for Twitter are different things. One thing that is true for both,…

— Maria Popova

“However divided we may feel within ourselves, it is the sum total of our warring fractions that make us who we are—fragmentary…

— Maria Popova

In order for us to truly create and contribute to the world, we have to be able to connect countless dots, to…

— Maria Popova

“Literature is the original Internet – every footnote, every citation, every allusion is essentially a hyperlink to another text, to another mind.”

— Maria Popova