Search results for “Kurt Vonnegut”
Telling Is Listening: Ursula K. Le Guin on the Magic of Real Human Conversation
“Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify it.”
John O’Donohue on Beauty, Why We Fall in Love, and How the Life-Force of Desire Vitalizes Us
“We can slip into the Beautiful with the same ease as we slip into the seamless embrace of water; something ancient within us already trusts that this embrace will hold us.”
The Six Pillars of the Wholehearted Life: Parker Palmer’s Spectacular Naropa University Commencement Address
“Take everything that’s bright and beautiful in you and introduce it to the shadow side of yourself… When you are able to say, ‘I am … my shadow as well as my light,’ the shadow’s power is put in service of the good.”
Why the Sky Enchants Us: Our Longing for Transcendence and How Myths Elevate Human Life
“Human beings have always been mythmakers… We are meaning-seeking creatures.”
John Waters’s Spectacular RISD Commencement Address on Creative Rebellion and the Artist’s Task to Cause Constructive Chaos
“Refuse to isolate yourself. Separatism is for losers.”
Why We Fall in Love: The Paradoxical Psychology of Romance and Why Frustration Is Necessary for Satisfaction
“All love stories are frustration stories… To fall in love is to be reminded of a frustration that you didn’t know you had.”
Willa Cather on Happiness
“That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.”
Toni Morrison on How to Be Your Own Story and Reap the Rewards of Adulthood in a Culture That Fetishizes Youth
“True adulthood… is a difficult beauty, an intensely hard won glory, which commercial forces and cultural vapidity should not be permitted to deprive you of.”
Emerson on What Beauty Really Means, How to Cultivate Its True Hallmarks, and Why It Bewitches the Human Imagination
“The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.”
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