The School Of Life Quotes

The Art of a Relationship Living in a city is an art, not a science. Choosing to live in a city is choosing to enter into a relationship with it. And, like any human relationship, the relationship you have with your city is one that requires nurturing, constant practice and work.

What did we do before Google Maps and Citymapper?

Hope reliably triumphs over experience. It's always very tempting to console ourselves with an apparently very reasonable thought: the reason it didn't work out this time was not that the expectations were too high, but that we directed them onto the wrong person. We

It's a paradox of modern times that the more we engage with social media in our virtual lives, the more antisocial we become in reality.

We need to imagine the turmoil, disappointment, worry and sheer confusion in people who may outwardly appear merely aggressive.

love is a skill to be learnt, rather than just an emotion to be felt. It

the time is ripe to step out from the Twittersphere and engage with people rather than their profiles. It seems ridiculous that so many of us are happy to engage in virtual conversations with strangers, yet remain silent in a group of real people. What

Anger is, in the Stoic analysis, caused by the violent collision of hope and reality. We

If we cannot always be entirely sane in our relationships, the kindest thing we can do for those who care about us is to hand over some maps that try to chart and guide others through the more disturbed regions of our internal world.

In the choice between being loved and being honest, most of us choose the former. But

I believe that feeling like a human, behaving like a human, responding like a human to others and to your surrounding environment is the key to living a fulfilled life in the city.

The road to calmer relationships therefore isn't necessarily about removing points of contention. It's rather about assuming that they are going to happen and that they will inevitably require quite a lot of time and thought to address

We all have the tools to shape culture to some degree, by organizing, attending and spreading the word. We can all create or contribute to experiences that touch other inhabitants, and this feels good. You don't have to start a gallery or spend your weekends carving kebab meat, but consider what your strengths and interests might be and how you can give something of yourself to others, something of yourself to your city.

Our networks are extensive today, aided by the internet, social media and the increasingly transitory, nomadic lives we all live.

Our romantic impulses are continually renewed. We blame everything but our hopes.

Being told we simply have to love someone for all that they are, or else think of ourselves as bad people, is asking for the impossible. How could someone never want to change any part of us if they know us properly? Do

Hold your beliefs lightly.' Certainty is not necessarily a friend of sanity, although it is often mistaken for it.

One of the greatest privileges of being on one's own is the flattering illusion that one is, in truth, quite an easy person to live with.

Romantic love is a dangerous illusion