Identity
“All art,” he wrote, “is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up.”
The Private Life: On James Baldwin - The Paris Review
Every little part of my life meant something, I just didn’t know it at the time
Thought Catalog • From Failure to Fresh Start
I Failed At Everything
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Does life feel like a long series of obligations that cannot be met?
Neil Fiore • The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play
Someone has to tell these kids, “wherever you go, you’ll find yourself there, and you have to start to do the work of accepting who you are, as much as you may not like yourself.” The stakes are high.
Freddie DeBoer • You Are You. We Live Here. This Is Now.
Love, we recognize that the fear of letting people down keeps us trapped and unable to heal and live a life that is our own.
Anne Berube • The Burnout Antidote
High lonesome can be a beautiful and powerful place if we can own our pain and share it instead of inflicting pain on others. And if we can find a way to feel hurt rather than spread hurt, we can change
Brené Brown • Braving the Wilderness
I know now that being afraid of things going wrong is not the way to make them go right