We keep a special place in our hearts for people who refuse to be impressed by us.
A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.
Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.
What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.
True love is a lack of desire to check one's smartphone in another's presence.
Out of the millions of people we live among, most of whom we habitually ignore and are ignored by in turn, there are always a few that hold hostage our capacity for happiness, whom we could recognize by their smell alone and whom we would rather die than be without.
Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a little of who they think we are.
Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go.
Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.
We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.
A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.
The more closely we analyze what we consider 'sexy,' the more clearly we will understand that eroticism is the feeling of excitement we experience at finding another human being who shares our values and our sense of the meaning of existence.
Dreams reveal we never quite get 'over' anything: it's all still in there somewhere.
Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.
Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains.
As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.
One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?
The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness".
Life seems to be a process of replacing one anxiety with another and substituting one desire for another--which is not to say that we should never strive to overcome any of our anxieties or fulfil any of our desires, but rather to suggest that we should perhaps build into our strivings an awareness of the way our goals promise us a respite and a resolution that they cannot, by definition, deliver.
Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves.
As we write, so we build: to keep a record of what matters to us.
People who readily accept the need for a gym will resist that their personalities might need some work too.
Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.
We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.
The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.
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