As Bellah wrote, “. . . we are moving to an ever greater validation of the sacredness of the individual person, [but] our capacity to imagine a social fabric that would hold individuals together is vanishing. . . . The sacredness of the
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“The liver was long thought to be the seat of courage, which is why a cowardly person was deemed “lily-livered.”
― The Body: A Guide for Occupants
― The Body: A Guide for Occupants
“This story involves multiple Viking funerals, thousands of square feet of cardboard, and enough hot glue to supply your mother-in-law’s craft night for the rest of time—not to mention an in-depth analysis of which human names are appropriate for dogs, a metaphor about a trash compactor, and two separate stories about the same Billy Joel song.”
― How to Host a Viking Funeral
― How to Host a Viking Funeral
“Who you are today . . . that’s who you are. Be brave. Be amazing. Be worthy. And every single time you get the chance? Stand up in front of people. Let them see you. Speak. Be heard. Go ahead and have the dry mouth. Let your heart beat so, so fast. Watch everything move in slow motion. So what. You what? You pass out, you die, you poop? No. (And this is really the only lesson you’ll ever need to know.)”
― Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person
― Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person
“I weighed my options: I could keep trying to convince her that I was serious about wanting her buy-in, or I could just accept the buy-in she’d already put on the table. I went with door number two.”
― How to Host a Viking Funeral
― How to Host a Viking Funeral
“You exist. You matter. You have value. You have every right to wear your hoodie, to play your music as loud as you want. You have every right to be you. And no one should deter you from being you. You have to be you. And you can never be afraid to be you.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
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