Personal Growth & Crisis
- A crisis represents an appetite for growth that hasn’t found another way of expressing itself.
- Self-esteem = Success / Expectations.
- Lovers of something are not those who already possess it but those who are hugely aware of how much they lack it.
- The more calmness matters to us, the more we realise when we’re not calm.
Love & Relationships
- Love is an admiration of the good sides.
- Compatibility is not a prerequisite of love but an achievement.
- Everyone will have a flaw.
- True love is patience and compassion for mutual weaknesses.
- The arts provide a miraculous mechanism whereby a total stranger can offer us many of the things that lie at the core of friendship.
Confidence & Perspective
- The road to greater confidence begins with a ritual of telling oneself every morning that one is an imbecile.
- Everyone is probably as anxious, uncertain, and wayward as we are.
- “Kings and philosophers shit, and so do ladies.” — Montaigne
- Disappointment is the heart of human existence.
- No one fully understands anyone else.
