Look and Listen #36: Joseph Pla-Narbona via Nowness
If you have ever struggled with depression, the whimsical and deep art of Josep Pla-Narbona and his story may be encouraging to you. He finds that drawing helps him to …
Quote for Today: James Jones
And the only way he had ever found, the only code, the only language by which he could speak and be heard by other men, could communicate himself, was with …
Quote for Today: Anton Chekhov
Why are we worn out? Why do we, who start out so passionate, brave, noble, believing, become totally bankrupt by the age of thirty or thirty-five? Why is it that …
Quote for Today: Martin Seligman
I think you can be depressed and flourish, I think you can have cancer and flourish, I think you can be divorced and flourish. When we believed that happiness …
Quote for Today: Sylvia Plath
I knew I should be grateful to Mrs Guinea, only I couldn’t feel a thing. If Mrs. Guinea had given me a ticket to Europe, or a round-the-world cruise, it …
Quote for Today: Paulo Coelho
“You don’t seem mad at all,” she said. But I am, although I’m undergoing a cure, because my problem is that I lack a particular chemical. However, while I …
Quote for Today: Melina Marchetta
The depression belongs to all of us. I think of the family down the road whose mother was having a baby and they went around the neighborhood saying, “We’re …
Quote for Today: Gustave Flaubert
Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me …
Quote for Today: Jonathan Safran Foer
I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day convince himself. Or fool himself. Or convince others—the …
Quote for Today: Vincent van Gogh
In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing. …