Of all the things that wisdom provides to help one live one’s entire life in happiness, the greatest by far is the possession of friendship.
No one properly gets, or can fully sympathize with, anyone else.
It should not be Illiers-Combray that we visit: a genuine homage to Proust would be to look at our world through his eyes, not look at his world through our eyes.
As victims of hurt, we frequently don't bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day.
A marriage doesn't begin with a proposal, or even an initial meeting. It begins far earlier, when the idea of love is born, and more specifically the dream of a soul mate.
Love is a skill, not just an enthusiasm.
I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.
In Flaubert’s eyes, that only entirely illiterate and uneducated Frenchmen now stood a chance of being able to think properly:
Cynics are merely idealists with unusually high standards. Through
Considered earthquakes and decided they were the result of air trapped inside the earth that had sought a way out, a form of geological flatulence:
Yet we can perhaps only ever fall in love without knowing quite who we have fallen in love with. The initial convulsion is necessarily founded on ignorance. Love or simple obsession?
Wittgenstein'ı bu duruma uyarlayacak olursak,dünyamızın sınırlarının,başkalarının bizi anlama sınırları tarafından belirlendiğini söyleyebiliriz.Elimizde olmadan başkalarının algılarının parametreleri...
What is so frightening is the extent to which we may idealize others when we have such trouble tolerating ourselves
We too often act from scripts generated by the crises of long ago that we've all but consciously forgotten. We behave according to an archaic logic which now escapes us, following a meaning we can't p...
We should forever forswear the masochistic process wherein we seek another's approval before we have even asked ourselves whether that person's views deserve to be listened to.
We seem normal only to those who don't know us very well. In a wiser, more self-aware society than our own, a standard question on an early dinner date would be; And how are you crazy?The problem is t...
We place such demands on our partners, and become so unreasonable around them, because we have faith that someone who understands obscure parts of us, whose presence solves so many of our woes, must s...
We might have been ready to offer sympathy, but in actuality there were stronger reasons to want to congratulate her for having found such a powerful motive to feel sad. We should have envied her for...
We have almost all had the experience of gazing at the full moon. But those of us who are neither astronomers nor astronauts are unlikely to have scheduled moongazing appointments. For Zen Buddhists i...
We don't need to be constantly reasonable in order to have good relationships; all we need to have mastered is the occasional capacity to acknowledge with good grace that we may, in one or two areas,...