Alain de Botton on Marrying the Wrong Person
In his popular 2016 opinion article Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person in the New York Times, Alain de Botton writes: "It’s one of the things we are most afraid might happen to us. We go to great lengths to avoid it. And yet we do it all the same: We marry the wrong person. Partly, it’s because we have a bewildering array of problems that emerge when we try to get close to others. We seem normal only to those who don’t know us very well.” [...] "The problem is that before
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: When You Love Someone
"When you love someone, you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is...
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Sophie Gilbert: Richard E Grant on Documenting Grief
Sophie Gilbert interviewed Richard E Grant, who documented his grief following the loss of his wife: "Why should grief be hidden, if...
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Mark Vahrmeyer on Disappointment
"B]eing able to tolerate disappointment in life, ourselves and others, is part of being a mature human being who is able to navigate the...
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Philippa Perry on Being Enough
"When we are born, become a child, an adult, do you know what is enough to be enough? Existing. That’s it. A dependent baby is enough...
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