engagement with the arts can help to regulate our emotions, build resilience, and support long-term well-being.
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We have, each of us, a life-story, an inner narrative — whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives. It might be said that each of us constructs and lives, a "narrative," and that this narrative is us, our identities. Biologically, physiologically, we are not so different from each other; historically, as narratives — we are each of us unique.
Oliver Sacks
We do not receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
Marcel Proust — In Search of Lost Time
The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings, as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air at rest, and the weathercock of the air in motion.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel — Journal Intime