I’m horrified to admit that I just love Salinger. I was devastated to find out that other people feel the same way.
Grace is the ability to accept change. Be open and supple; the brittle break.
Arrogance is born of insecurity. Pride is different. It is born of dignity, self-worth, and self-respect. We all see the world through the prism of our identity. If our self-worth is low, it affects everything we do. The point of life is to contribute to others, but without a certain self-regard, it is sometimes difficult to make breakfast.
Oddly, with discipline, structure, and order, you will find freedom, anything is possible. Without it, locating your saddle may take all morning.
Hello, you’ve reached the winter of our discontent.
I want to want to try to never waste energy degrading someone else. Also, I want to try not to see life as a competition.
Justice. There is only one thing for which a knight has no patience: injustice. Every true knight fights for human dignity at all times.
I do not want you children to use my untimely death, or any setback that life may deliver, as an excuse not to take responsibility for yourselves.
Often we imagine that we will work hard... arrive at some distant goal, and then we will be happy. This is a delusion. Happiness is the result of a life lived with purpose. Happiness is not an objective. It is the movement of life itself, a process, an activity.
To head north, a knight may use the North Star to guide him, but he will not arrive at the North Star. A knight’s duty is to proceed in that direction.
Those who cannot easily forgive will not collect many friends. Look for the best in others and yourself.
Everything that’s happening, is happening inside the self. And whatever the self is, it is not William Harding the movie actor or the adulterer. Whatever the self is will not die when your body has worms crawling through your eye sockets.
I feel the same about cocaine as I do about eating meat,” she said. “It’s vile and ultimately morally reprehensible, but as long as I don’t pay for it – I find it quite enjoyable.
Music is constructed in notes. Language in words. Both are communicating. Music is a language of feeling, the heart. Words are the music of the mind. Theater is their marriage.
Thank God. You are now a little bit lighter, you are a little bit more you. ‘Cause if you can lose it – a car, an idea, a belief, a woman – it wasn’t yours.
That’s the point of acting: to bring about awareness of humanity, to conjure compassion, and to alleviate shame.
In singing our song, in telling our story, in inviting you to say ‘Hey, listen to me, and i’ll listen to you’, we’re starting a dialogue. And when you do that, this healing happens, and we come out of our corners, and we start to witness each other’s common humanity. We start to assert it. And when we do that, really good things happen.
Men are weak and silly and they admire strength and goddamn it, I had it.
It’s our job to transform literature into an event. We do this with why and how. Why our character speaks and how our character speaks.
I looked around me and absorbed the peace of a sprawling bustling city stopped dead, socked in snow. My puppy jumped and barked, twisting and sliding. I was instantly wildly grateful just to be awake and witness all this stillness. I don’t ever want to die, I thought, I want to live forever.
It’s funny – but there will be no need for insurance in heaven. None at all. And there will be so much need for poetry and songs and jokes. People will value what you’ve learned. It doesn’t matter if you can make a living. Shakespeare will be important. You will be so valuable, William. And I will just sit there listening, realizing how I’ve misspent my life.