Blind impatience is equally evident in the fruit section. Our ancestors might have delighted in the occasional handful of berries found on the underside of a bush in late summer, viewing it as a sign...
Learning to give up on perfection may be just about the most romantic move any of us could make.
Rather than getting more spoilt with age, as difficulties pile up, epiphanies of gratitude abound.
Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.
A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.
To look at the paper is to raise a seashell to one's ear and to be overwhelmed by the roar of humanity.
Sex gets us out of the house and out of ourselves.
Perfecțiunea exercită o anume tiranie, aproape o epuizare, ceva care neagă privitorului un rol în propria creație și care se impune cu tot dogmatismul unei afirmații lipsite de ambiguitate. Adevărata...
Judged against eternity, how little of what agitates us makes any difference.
In our more arrogant moments, the sin of pride—or superbia, in Augustine's Latin formulation—takes over our personalities and shuts us off from those around us. We become dull to others when all we se...
I was here, I saw this and it mattered to me.
How seldom we notice rooftops; how easily our eyes are drawn to the more flamboyant attractions of a Roman temple or Renaissance church.
If you are pro love, you have to be a little bit disloyal to the romantic feelings that propel you in the early days.
I do think that travel can be part of a journey of inner maturation, but you've got to do it right.
Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person.
Maturity/experience: the beguiling texture of stones subjected to years of furious seas.
Without sex, we would be dangerously invulnerable. We might believe we were not ridiculous. We wouldn't know rejection and humiliation so intimately.
It follows that the more people we take to be our equals and compare ourselves to, the more people there will be to envy.
According to one influential wing of modern secular society there are few more disreputable fates than to end up being 'like everyone else' for 'everyone else' is a category that comprises the mediocr...
Love reinvents our needs with unique speed. My impatience with the customs ritual indicated that Chloe, who I had not known existed a few hours ago, had already acquired the status of a craving. I fel...