"[Mr. Sharp said:" "People are so eager to maximize efficiency of relationships that they have lost touch with what it is to be a friend." By his definition, friends are people you take the time to understand and allow to understand you."
- from a NYT piece, "Do your friends actually like you?" (link)
"Instead, David encourages people to explore that frustration — maybe you're upset because your boss didn't give a coworker due credit for a project. What that signals to you is that fairness is a really important value for you. "That information is really, really important," David said. "So what happens when we focus too much on being happy is we actually push aside critical information that helps us to learn and adapt in our lives. And that helps us to forge a life that is connected with our own heartbeat.""
- from a Business Insider article, "A Harvard psychologist says too many people think about happiness all wrong" (link)
"But as I see it, the bigger problem is not that conservatives are infiltrating social science departments to spread hatred, but rather than liberals have turned departments into enclaves of ideological homogeneity...
Maybe a starting point to bolster ideological diversity would likewise be to signal that conservatives are not second-class citizens on campuses: We liberals should have the self-confidence to believe that our values can triumph in a fair contest in the marketplace of ideas."
- from a NYT op-ed, "The Liberal Blind spot" (link)