“Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
-JEAN COCTEAU”
― The Style Strategy: A Less-Is-More Approach to Staying Chic and Shopping Smart
-JEAN COCTEAU”
― The Style Strategy: A Less-Is-More Approach to Staying Chic and Shopping Smart
“He stressed the futility of an encyclopedic knowledge for its own sake, and wound up with the injunction,“Don’t be a damned ammunition wagon; be a rifle!”
― On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy
― On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy
“Isolating oneself into a narrowly defined victim group promotes a view of others as irrelevant at best and dangerous at worst, which eventually only leads to further alienation. Gangs, extremist political parties, and religious cults may provide solace, but they rarely foster the mental flexibility needed to be fully open to what life has to offer and as such cannot liberate their members from their traumas.”
― The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
― The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
“It's absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.” - Lady Windermere’s Fan”
― Notes on ‘Camp’
― Notes on ‘Camp’
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