Joan Didion on Self-Respect – The Marginalian
“Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.”| The Marginalian
“Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.”| The Marginalian
“This is what the real, no bullshit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: how to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unc…| The Marginalian
On love, liberty, and the pursuit of silence.| The Marginalian
“Work and leisure are complementary parts of the same living process and cannot be separated without destroying the joy of work and the bliss of leisure.”| The Marginalian
“The modern version of introspection is the sum total of all those highly individualized choices that we make about the material content of our lives.”| The Marginalian
“To not have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.”| The Marginalian
How to keep the center solid.| The Marginalian
There is something especially magical about framing these moments of stillness and of absolute attention to the individual amidst this bustling city of millions, a city that never sleeps and never …| The Marginalian
How deep time helps make sense of our fleeting human lives and why any meaningful creative endeavor requires sacrifice.| The Marginalian
Reflections on the rewards of seeking out what magnifies your spirit.| The Marginalian
On the art-science of “allowing the various petals of our identity to fully unfold.”| The Marginalian
Insights from seven thinkers who have contemplated the art of finding your purpose and turning it into work.| The Marginalian
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”| The Marginalian
