“Perhaps we have failed as human beings. Perhaps we have embarrassed ourselves to the natural world. We have been rigorous and willful in all the wrong ways. But it doesn't have to be this way. Maybe you don't want to deal with (marching), the permanent marker and poster board. But try something else. Carry someone's groceries. Chat with the custodian in your office building. Donate blood. Live in Rwanda for a year. Write letters to the Department of Buildings. Learn to knit. It is only going to get better from here on out.” WorldWayWantWritingTryingYearsHumansHas BeensNaturalHuman BeingsDealsBloodBuildingOfficeLettersPermanentGet BetterBoardsDepartmentEmbarrassedNatural WorldGroceriesPostersWrong WayDonateMarkersRwandaCustodiansOffice BuildingsDonating Blood Author:Sufjan Stevens
“I didnt like being reminded about how self-absorbed i was. I wanted to be over this, done with this. I didnt want to live in a broken world or a broken me. I wasnt trying to weasel out of anything. I just wasnt in the mood of being on the earth that night. I get like that sometimes when it rains, or when i see certain sad movies.” WorldWantTryingSelfSometimesDoneWantedEarthNightCertainBrokenRainMoodSelf AbsorbedWeaselsBroken WorldSad Movie Book:Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality Source: Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
“I'm constantly reading and trying to enlighten myself to how the world works in its silent ways to make everything seem normal when it's actually incredibly discriminating.” WorldWayTryingSeemsReadingNormalSilentEnlightening Author:Jenny Hval
“When I was growing up, I would try to sing out of key very consciously. I was probably afraid of trying too hard to do something beautiful, and then I just wasn't good enough. But I've learned that I was also on the outside - wanting more challenge by living in that more conventional world.” WorldTryingHardEnoughBeautifulChallengesGrowing UpGrowingKeysI've LearnedGood EnoughConventionalSomething BeautifulWanting MoreTrying Too Hard Author:Jenny Hval
“There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail.” PeopleWorldTryingNumbersThis WorldSolitaryShellsHermitsSmall NumbersCrabsSnailHermit Crabs Author:Anton Chekhov
“I'm trying to do something that is real. What I mean is this; my sense of being in the world starts with a physical relationship with my surroundings, their weight, texture, density, transparency, and so forth.” WorldTryingMeanRealRealityWeightSurroundingsTransparencyTextureDensity Author:Andrew Forge
“Natural writers will often try to force themselves into a form - novel, story, screenplay, or poem - that is not necessarily the appropriate form for the way they see the world... if, in fact, they are writing from the artist's impulse, which is a deep, inchoate vision of some sort of order behind the apparent chaos of life on planet earth, they'll be driven then to express that vision in the creation of the object - the art object.” IfsWorldWayWritingTryingArtFactsStoriesEarthFormArtistOrderForceNaturalBehindsVisionNovelCreationObjectsPlanetsChaosDrivenImpulseAppropriateScreenplaysPlanet Earth Author:Robert Olen Butler
“The storytelling mind is allergic to uncertainty, randomness, and coincidence. It is addicted to meaning. If the storytelling mind cannot find meaningful patterns in the world, it will try to impose them. In short, the storytelling mind is a factory that churns out true stories when it can, but will manufacture lies when it can’t.” IfsWorldTryingMindStoriesLyingPatternsMeaningfulStorytellingUncertaintyFactoriesCoincidenceFind MeTrue StoryRandomnessAllergic Book:The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human Source: The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human
“Life is always trying to love us, but we need to be open if we are to see it. Fear shows us one world; and love shows us another world. We decide which world is real. And we decide which world we want to live in.” IfsWorldWantNeedsTryingRealShowsLife IsAnd LoveAlways TryingAnother WorldWorld And Love Author:Louise Hay
“It could be argued that all leadership is appreciative leadership. It’s the capacity to see the best in the world around us, in our colleagues, and in the groups we are trying to lead. It’s the capacity to see the most creative and improbable opportunities in the marketplace. It’s the capacity to see with an appreciative eye the true and the good, the better and the possible.” WorldTryingEyeOpportunityCreativeGroupsCapacityColleaguesMarketplaceImprobableAppreciative Author:David Cooperrider