The only way to be happy is to realise how much depends on how you look at things.

Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappearance as about the loss itself..

...if the beginnings of love and amorous politics are equally rosy, then the ends may be equally bloody..

The only possible way to begin a book is to tell oneself that its eventual failure is guaranteed — but survivable..

Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom..

There are things that are not spoken about in polite society. Very quickly in most conversations you'll reach a moment where someone goes, 'Oh, that'….

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 st….

You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days..

We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful..

A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough..

Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from..

We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them..

Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance..

The mind may be reluctant to think properly when thinking is all it is supposed to do; the task can be as paralysing as having to tell a joke or mimi….

Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene can decline with ev….

I am in general a very pessimistic person with an optimistic, day to day take on things. The bare facts of life are utterly terrifying. And yet, one ….

There is a longing for a return to a time without the need for choices, free of the regret at the inevitable loss that all choice (however wonderful)….

The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along..

On paper, being good sounds great but a lot depends on the atmosphere of the workplace or community we live in. We tend to become good or bad dependi….

The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else..

The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life..