Rather than getting more spoilt with age, as difficulties pile up, epiphanies of gratitude abound.

You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them.

Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person.

The happiness that may emerge from taking a second look is central to Proust's therapeutic conception. It reveals the extent to which our dissatisfactions may be the result of failing to look properly at our lives rather than the result of anything inherently deficient about them.

As we write, so we build: to keep a record of what matters to us.

Many moments in religion seem attractive to me even though I can't believe in any of it.

Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.