A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.
Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.
As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.
Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't- surrender to events with hope.
Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one's own ambitions.
Every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.
Everyone wants a better life; very few of us want to be better people.
Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behavior is a sign of suffering rather than malice.
Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone- and finding that that's ok with them.
Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.
Mental health: having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle.
Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves.
One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.
One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.
People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.
Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves.
The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness.
The only people we can think of as normal are those we don't yet know very well.
The only way to be happy is to realise how much depends on how you look at things.
There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.
There is real danger of a disconnect between what's on your business card and who you are deep inside, and it's not a disconnect that the world is ready to be patient with.
Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom.
We often lose our tempers not with those who are actually to blame; just with those who love us enough to forgive us our foul moods.
Work is most fulfilling when you're at the comfortable, exciting edge of not quite knowing what you are doing.
You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.
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