Not everything which makes us feel better is good for us. Not everything which hurts may be bad.
My mistake was to confuse a destiny to love with a destiny to love a specific person. It was the error of thinking that Chloe, rather than love, was inevitable.
Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same.
Instead of bringing back 1600 plants, we might return from our journeys with a collection of small unfêted but life-enhancing thoughts.
In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.
Epicurus founded a school of philosophy which placed great emphasis on the importance of pleasure. Pleasure is the beginning and the goal of a happy life, he asserted, confirming what many had long th...
By overwhelming consensus, our culture locates the primary difficulty of relationships in finding the ‘right’ person rather than in knowing how to love a real — that is, a necessarily rather unright —...
An urgent wish is no guarantor of a sound solution.
The news should help us with mourning the twisted nature of man and reconciling us to the difficulty of being able to imagine perfection while still not managing to secure it – for a range of stupid b...
I like the values associated with a medical family - common sense, being practical but also thoughtful.
The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are far from being all we might be.
I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed.
چطور میتوان غم را نشان داد بدون اینکه تمامی آدم را فراگیرد؟
At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.
There is a danger of developing a blanket distaste for modern life which could have its attractions but lack the all-important images to help us identify them.
The most uncouth of our afflictions is to despise our being. Rather than trying to cut ourselves in two, we should cease waging civil war on our perplexing physical envelopes and learn to accept them...
Silence and clumsiness could of course be taken as rather pitiful proof of desire. It being easy enough to seduce someone towards whom one feels indifferent, the clumsiest seducers could generously be...
Kendimizi bildik bileli burçlara ve kişisel fallara merak duymamızın nedeni,anlaşılma tutkumuzu uyandırıyor olmalarıdır.
It may come very fast, this certainty that another human being is a soulmate. We needn’t have spoken with them; we may not even know their name. Objective knowledge doesn’t come into it. What matters...
In the field of education, it seems ‘normal’ to run stories about class sizes, teachers’ pay, the country’s performance in international league tables and the right balance between the roles of the pr...