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No one tells us that we are good enough; there’s always something, some trait, they want us to develop. This conditioning creates a permanent sense of inadequacy in us. To overcome this, we begin our search outside. We start looking for
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“You can be whatever you want to in life, as long as you don’t become a critic! Not of other people, and not of yourself. It’s so easy to be a critic, any coward can do that. But art doesn’t need critics, art has enough enemies already. Art needs friends.”
― My Friends
― My Friends
“Art needs friends, with our bodies against the wind and our hands cupped around the flame, until it’s strong enough to burn brightly with its own power.”
― My Friends
― My Friends
“But I guess if a work of art makes us see something familiar in a new way or makes us feel something we ought to have felt all along or shows us our place in the world more clearly, maybe then it qualifies as ‘good.’ If it makes us better somehow, maybe that’s what gives it value.”
― Theo of Golden
― Theo of Golden
“dopamine motivates behaviors that are key to survival: eating, mating, and caregiving.”
― The Joy of Movement: How Exercise Helps Us Find Happiness, Hope, Connection, and Courage
― The Joy of Movement: How Exercise Helps Us Find Happiness, Hope, Connection, and Courage
“Art is what we leave of ourselves in other people. But he doesn’t quite know how to say that.”
― My Friends
― My Friends
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