Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.

When work is not going well, it's useful to remember that our identities stretch beyond what is on the business card, that we were people long before we became workers - and will continue to be human once we have put our tools down forever.

Unnatural to expect that learning to be happy should be any easier than, say, learning to play the violin or require any less practice.

At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.

True love is a lack of desire to check one's smartphone in another's presence.

The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.

Life gives us no such handy markers - a storm comes, and far from this being a harbinger of death and collapse, during its course a person discovers love and truth, beauty and happiness, the rain lashing at the windows all the while.