“Don't try to understand life. Live it! Don't try to understand love. Move into love. Then you will know - and all that knowing will come out of your experiencing. The more you know, the more you know that much remains to be known.”
― Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously
― Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously
“It is best to think of culture as a repertoire, like that of an actor,a musician, or a dancer. This image suggests that culture cultivates skills and habits in its users, so that one can be more or less good at the culture repertoire one performs,and that such cultured capacities may exist both as discrete skills,habits and orientations, and in larger assemblages, like the pieces a musician has mastered or the plays a actor has performed. It is in this sense that people have an array of cultural resources upon which they can draw. We can ask not only what pieces are in the repertoire but why some are performed at one time, some at another.”
― Blue-Chip Black: Race, Class, and Status in the New Black Middle Class
― Blue-Chip Black: Race, Class, and Status in the New Black Middle Class
“Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“To truly be committed to a life of honesty, love and discipline, we must be willing to commit ourselves to reality.”
― Healing the Shame that Binds You
― Healing the Shame that Binds You
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