Many of us are tethered to bodies that sabotage us in our struggle to keep from getting fat, or to slim down when we do.
Whatever the reason for any one individual's tendency to gain weight, the only way to lose the weight is to eat less and exercise more.
Through social media, young people are constantly being pinged about a whole slew of potentially better matches or social activities.
Any successful black person will have to face suspicion within his or her own community about his or her loyalty to other blacks.
We know that we're not supposed to be racially biased, and we don't want to think of ourselves as racially biased, so we tell ourselves a different story.
When you truly give up trying to be whole through others, you end up receiving what you always wanted from others.
First of all, Shakespeare is about pleasure and interest. He was from the first moment he actually wrote something for the stage, and he remains so.
In order to heal themselves, people must recognize, first, that they have an inner guidance deep within and, second, that they can trust it.
I sincerely believe that there's room for cutting down trees for forestry and grazing, so as we all get to eat. Everyone has to compromise.
I feel like every movie, I've learned more and more about what I think of the world and what I'm trying to figure out.
It became extremely important that we go and see the four heads of the governments, and the message was delivered, with the tea packets, to all these heads.
I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my mother.
It's quite fashionable to say that the educational system is broken. It's not broken. It's wonderfully constructed. It's just that we don't need it anymore.
Go to a job interview and tell and employer that you can recite the 17 times table; they don't care. Why are we still teaching it?
I am never not thinking about stories. 'The Bone Season' is 90% of my brain - 10% is interacting with the rest of the world.
I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.
I was born in 1991, and 'Harry Potter' came out in '97, so, you know, I was really obsessed. I used to read them in one night.
'The Bone Season' is violent. There's sex. My little brother keeps asking to read it, and he's 9, so I'm like, 'No, it's not happening.'
I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's me.
We all want to be happy. We need to expand the notion of what that means, to make it bigger and wiser.
In Buddhist teaching, ignorance is considered the fundamental cause of violence - ignorance... about the separation of self and other... about the consequences of our actions.
