Emerson said that the average man is “born red, and dies gray.” By this, he meant that when a baby ...

In the heat of the afternoon, a stag stopped at a pool in the woods to drink. Seeing his reflection in its ...

People almost universally recall their adolescence, at least the part encapsulated by the middle school ...

We exist in an age of limitless optionality. There are few universal social mores to check our behavior, ...

“Walk it off.”  If today a football coach said this to a player who’d just taken a hit, he ...

You walk up to a door and put the wrong key in the lock. It doesn’t turn. Do you then keep trying that ...

When you were growing up, and your family was invited to a dinner party, chances are you ate exclusively ...

In the aftermath of the Second Punic War, Roman citizens erected several statues — which remained standing ...

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In East Asian religious and philosophical traditions, Tao means “the Way,” and represents the ...

To figure out the cost of something, we typically look to its price tag. But this number represents but a ...

Journals in which only the first few pages have been written in. Bibles in which only the first few pages ...

When smartphones first started taking off, which, strange to recall given their current ubiquity, was only ...

In recent years, it's become fashionable to question the authenticity of Thoreau’s famous experiment in ...

One of the keenest desires of every individual is to find his purpose -- the reason you’re here on ...

Disappointment results from a violation of expectations. Disappointment happens to everyone, sometimes ...

Jesus said, “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.” Ever since, people have routinely ...

“You should only compete with yourself.”  “Just try to be your own very best.” In a ...

We often use the words “nice” and “kind” synonymously.  But it can be helpful to ...

In 1934, Rear Admiral Richard Byrd spent almost five months living entirely alone in a tiny shack buried ...