What kills us isn't one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can't turn down for fear of disappointing others.

A good half of the art of living is resilience.

Most good thinking has its origin in fear.

what we call a home is merely any place that succeeds in making more consistenly available to us the important truths which the wider world ignores, or which our distracted and irresolute selves have trouble holding onto." (p123) Architecture of Happiness

It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however calming, was also a reminder of infidelity to what I had at one time held so dear.

The more closely we analyze what we consider 'sexy,' the more clearly we will understand that eroticism is the feeling of excitement we experience at finding another human being who shares our values and our sense of the meaning of existence.

Work is most fulfilling when you're at the comfortable, exciting edge of not quite knowing what you are doing.