Top 21 The School Of Life Quotes
#1. Our networks are extensive today, aided by the internet, social media and the increasingly transitory, nomadic lives we all live.
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#2. Anger is, in the Stoic analysis, caused by the violent collision of hope and reality. We
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#4. 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.
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#5. Unfortunately, under the sway of Romantic ideology, most of us end up being terrible teachers and equally terrible students. That's because we don't accept that it's honest (let alone noble) to have things we might want to teach and areas where we might need to be taught. We
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#6. 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
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#7. 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
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#8. Hold your beliefs lightly.' Certainty is not necessarily a friend of sanity, although it is often mistaken for it.
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#9. We are creatures deeply marked by our expectations. We go around with mental pictures, lodged in our brains, of how things are supposed to go. We
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#10. We may believe we are seeking happiness in love, but what we are really after is familiarity.
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#11. We need to imagine the turmoil, disappointment, worry and sheer confusion in people who may outwardly appear merely aggressive.
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#12. love is a skill to be learnt, rather than just an emotion to be felt. It
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#13. Our romantic impulses are continually renewed. We blame everything but our hopes.
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#14. 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
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#15. 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.
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#16. 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
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#17. Two people should see a relationship as a constant opportunity to improve and be improved. When lovers teach each other uncomfortable truths, they are not giving up on love. They are trying to do something very true to love: which is to make their partners more loveable.
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#19. In the choice between being loved and being honest, most of us choose the former. But
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#20. 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.
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#21. 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.
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