Yes to life - a book

 

By Maria Popova

"Who can weigh the ballast of another’s woe, or another’s love? We live — with our woes and our loves, with our tremendous capacity for beauty and our tremendous capacity for suffering — counterbalancing the weight of existence with the irrepressible force of living. The question, always, is what feeds the force and hulls the ballast."

A book for the times we are living in right now.  Who of us gives in to terrible force, and who fights for individuality - freedom?  Pandemic, war, political division, social tragedy and discord: These are all happening at this moment  We survive because we choose to  We choose right from obvious wrong and battle to save ourselves  We are worth the effort  WE are the people who make the world what it is 

 

Art from Trees at Night by Art Young, 1926. (Available as a print.) 

Source   themarginalian.org