We are never through with the requirement for acceptance. This isn't a curse limited to the inadequate and the weak. Insecurity may even be a peculiar sign of well-being. It means we haven't allowed o...
If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful.
We owe it to the fields that our houses will not be the inferiors of the virgin land they have replaced. We owe it to the worms and the trees that the building we cover them with will stand as promise...
We continue to need exhortations to be sympathetic and just, even if we do not believe that there is a God who has a hand in wishing to make us so. We no longer have to be brought into line by the thr...
What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.
We believe we are seeking happiness in love, but what we are really after is familiarity. We are looking to re-create, within our adult relationships, the very feelings we knew so well in childhood an...
We are tempted to believe that certain achievements and possessions will give us enduring satisfaction. We are invited to imagine ourselves scaling the steep cliff face of happiness in order to reach...
In the immediate vicinity, there might well be stability and peace. In the garden, a breeze may be swaying the branches of the plum tree and dust may slowly be gathering on the bookshelves in the livi...
Far from rejecting outright any hierarchy of success or failure, philosophy instead reconfigures the judging process, lending legitimacy to theidea that themainstream value system may unfairly consign...
Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.
Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.
The rich believe that their money will insulate them from setbacks and frustrations, and that's one of the absurdist expectations of all.
Lovers cannot remain philosophers for long, they should give way to the religious impulse, which is to believe and have faith, as opposed to the philosophic impulse, which is to doubt & inquire. They...
In literature, too, we admire prose in which a small and astutely arranged set of words has been constructed to carry a large consignment of ideas. 'We all have strength enough to bear the misfortunes...
We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to the wider world to settle the question of our significan...
A popular perception that political news is boring is no minor issue; for when news fails to harness the curiosity and attention of a mass audience through its presentational techniques, a society bec...
Anyone who urgently needs us deserves, in the true book of love, to be our friend.
One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.
Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.
There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.
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