Douglas Kennedy
Douglas Kennedy
pursuit-of-happiness past ideas
If there is an abiding theme in 'The Pursuit of Happiness,' it is the idea that you come into the world already shaped by other people's past histories.
light profound darkness
We can never change the story that made us what we are. It's a story accumulated by the manifold complexities-its capacity for astonishment and horror, for sanguinity and hopelessness, for pellucid light and the most profound darkness. We are what happened to us. And we carry everywhere all that has shaped us-all that we lacked, all that we wanted but never got; all that we got but never wanted; all that was found and lost.
solitude said
There is much to be said for solitude.
space blue bird
Because there is no meaning to be found in the arbitrary nature of things., It's all random. Just as space is blue. And birds fly through it.
parent forgiving adults
The only time you truly become an adult is when you finally forgive your parents for being just as flawed as everyone else.