I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living.

Taking architecture seriously therefore makes some singular and strenuous demands upon us...It means conceding that we are inconveniently vulnerable to the colour of our wallpaper and that our sense of purpose may be derailed by an unfortunate bedspread

The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.

Our sense of what is valuable will hence be radically distorted if we must perpetually condemn as tedious everything we lack, simply because we lack it.

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

The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can't accept that.

Mental health: having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle.