Small Pleasures
The School of Life
Top 10 Best Quotes
“We have begun to know someone properly whenever they have started substantially to disappoint us.”
“we come to social life greedy to speak rather than listen,”
“thinking is the process by which we address and make progress towards resolving a matter which is both important and confusing.”
“Worldly success is the consolation prize for those unhappy driven souls who have redirected their early humiliation and sense that they weren’t good enough into ‘achievements’ – which will never make up for the unconditional love they will deep down always crave in vain.”
“Without quite stating it plainly to ourselves, we hope that we too will be appreciated as this jumper is; that someone will feel about us this way and not only forgive us our frayed, misshapen bodies and characters – but will come to love us precisely for these things.”
“When we resolve one major anxiety, we imagine that we will be satisfied and calm will descend. But all we’re really ever doing is freeing up space for an even more poisonous and aggressive worry to spring forth, as it always will. Life can only ever be a process of replacing one anxiety with another.”
“When the world seems bountiful, material accumulation looks less impressive.”
“What we learn is how important modesty of ambition is. It’s where we see how love can be so beneficially detached from expectation and from reciprocation. The grandmother never hopes to be understood by the child. It is enough to spend a nice day, without doing much: we saw a pony, had some milk, played a game of cards, tried doing a painting of a flower. Quite soon, the 6-year-old will start to think this is a ridiculous day. And it may take six decades before they relearn that it is the purpose and meaning of life.”
“We mostly encounter the edited versions of other people. While we are continually exposed to the unedited version of ourselves. The unfair comparison means we inevitably feel much weirder than we really are.”
“We get miserable not because things are necessarily really so awful, but because they fall short of the standard we have demanded.”
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