The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other's smartphone.

Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.

The most unbearable thing about many successful people is not - as we flatteringly think - how lazy they are, but how hard they work.

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.

The only way to be happy is to realise how much depends on how you look at things

What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty.

In the works of Lucretius, we find two reasons why we shouldn't worry about death. If you have had a successful life, Lucretius tell us, there's no reason to mind its end. And, if you haven't had a good time, "Why do you seek to add more years, which would also pass but ill?"