It is not necessarily at home that we best encounter our true selves. The furniture insists that we cannot change because it does not; the domestic setting keeps us tethered to the person we are in ordinary life, who may not be who we essentially are.
Alain de BottonThe finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.
Alain de BottonThough debts are condemned in the financial world, the world of friendship and love may perversely depend on well-managed debts.
Alain de Botton