In our world, that’s the way you live your grown-up life: you must constantly rebuild your identity as an adult, the way it’s been put together it is wobbly, ephemeral, and fragile, it cloaks despair and, when you’re alone in front of the mirror, it tells you the lies you need to believe. For Papa, … Continue reading Quote for Today: Muriel Barbery
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Quote for Today: Jim Morrison
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, … Continue reading Quote for Today: Jim Morrison
Quote for Today: Isobelle Carmody
The very shape of our dreams defines us. We learn about the world and try out our thoughts and visions in them. Our dreams goad us and drive us and summon and sustain us and when we are old they comfort us. Magic is a kind of dream, and love is a dream, and hope … Continue reading Quote for Today: Isobelle Carmody
Quote for Today: Alain de Botton
Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere - and I really don't get on with machismo. I'm interested in sensitivity and weakness and fear and anxiety because I think that, at the end of the day, behind our masks, that's what we are. --Alain de Botton, quoted in New Yorker Magazine, 2013 Public … Continue reading Quote for Today: Alain de Botton
Quote for Today: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character. ―Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions Image: Jekyll and Hyde © Steve Hodgson with CCLicense
Quote for Today: Bruce Feiler
The bottom line: if you want a happier family, create, refine and retell the story of your family's positive moments and your ability to bounce back from the difficult ones. That act alone may increase the odds that your family will thrive for many generations to come. --Bruce Feiler, "The Stories that Bind Us", New … Continue reading Quote for Today: Bruce Feiler
Quote for Today: Chinua Achebe
He knew that he had lost his place among the nine masked spirits who administered justice in the clan. He had lost the chance to lead his warlike clan against the new religion, which, he was told, had gained ground. He had lost the years in which he might have taken the highest titles in … Continue reading Quote for Today: Chinua Achebe
