Search results for “do it yourself”
Geoff Dyer on the Paradoxical Rewards of Our Capacity for Disappointment
“When I am no longer capable of disappointment the romance will be gone: I may as well be dead.”
The Transactional Self: Psychologist Jerome Bruner on Social Mutuality, the Paradox of Privacy, and How Storytelling Shapes Our Sense of Personhood
“The components of the behavior … are not emotions, cognitions, and actions, each in isolation, but aspects of a larger whole that achieves its integration only within a cultural system.”
Ursula K. Le Guin on Power, Freedom, and How Storytelling Expands Our Scope of the Possible
“We will not know our own injustice if we cannot imagine justice. We will not be free if we do not imagine freedom. We cannot demand that anyone try to attain justice and freedom who has not had a chance to imagine them as attainable.”
Trust Yourself: Emerson on Self-Reliance as the Essence of Genius and What It Means to Be a Nonconformist
“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.”
Eudora Welty Reads Her Comic and Quietly Heartbreaking Masterpiece “Why I Live at the P.O.”
“Here I am, and here I’ll stay. I want the world to know I’m happy.”
The Final Word Is Love: Dorothy Day on Human Connection, Music, and the Power of Community
“We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.”
How Do You Measure Your Life: Artist Carrie Mae Weems’s Stirring SVA Commencement Address
“Open and alert, you respond sensitively to the world around you, and it causes you a great deal of pain and tremendous trepidation. But, of course, these are the natural byproducts of a closely examined life.”
Either/Or: Kierkegaard on Transcending the Tyranny of Binary Choice and Double Regret
“True eternity lies not behind either/or but ahead of it.”
Poet Sarah Kay on How We Measure Creative Success, Being a Working Artist in Today’s World, and the Only Antidote to Our Endemic Fear of Missing Out
…and a wonderful fable about the three different ways of relating to one’s work, each essential for the whole of art.
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