A culture that values only what has succeeded before, where the first rule of success is that there must be something 'measured' and counted, is not a culture that will sustain alternatives to market-driven 'creativity. — Sue Halpern Copy Share Image
“A culture that values only what has succeeded before, where the first rule of success is that there must be something to be 'measured' and counted, is not a culture that will sustain alternatives to market-driven 'creativity.' (NYRB, Vol. LX,… — Sue Halpern Copy Share Image
We are made of memories and formed by experience. I keep wondering what kind of people we would be, and what kind of world… — Sue Halpern Copy Share Image
“The unasked-for gift of being with people at the end of their lives...is a simple but profound appreciation of the here and now of… — Sue Halpern Copy Share Image
Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive 'nows.' — Sue Halpern Copy Share Image
A culture that values only what has succeeded before, where the first rule of success is that there must be something 'measured' and counted,… — Sue Halpern Copy Share Image
“…goodness is ours to dispense. It's a currency that each of us gets to invent and denominate. David's had pictures of Chopin and Keith… — Sue Halpern Copy Share Image
Trusting each other is the beginning of a certain secular faith, a faith that allows us to live in families and communities and nations.… — Sue Halpern Copy Share Image
Trust, which is a virtue, is also a habit, like prayer. It requires exercise. And just as no one can run five miles a… — Sue Halpern Copy Share Image
“We often talk about "getting out of our comfort zone," but rarely about entering someone else's.” — Sue Halpern Copy Share Image
“If we are lucky, we get to live very long and healthy lives. If we are even luckier, we will be astonished by the… — Sue Halpern Copy Share Image
It is essential not only to the souls of painters and poets, who thrive in solitude, but to the rest of us, too--individuals whose… — Sue Halpern Copy Share Image
“A culture that values only what has succeeded before, where the first rule of success is that there must be something to be 'measured'… — Sue Halpern Copy Share Image
“For loving-kindness to be real, for it to have moral value, he observed, it must be practiced with consideration "of the other's distress alone".” — Sue Halpern Copy Share Image
