“To cope with the conflict between hope and reality, our culture should teach us good integration skills, prompting us to accept with a little more grace what is imperfect in ourselves – and then, by extension, in others. We should be gently reminded that no one we can love will ever satisfy us compl…”— Alain de Botton, thebookoflife.orgTagged: How To Think, The Human Mind, Psychology, Philosophy
“It’s a huge psychological achievement to accept other humans in their bewildering mixture of good and bad, capacity to assist us and to frustrate us, kindness and meanness – and to see that, far more than we’re inclined to imagine in our furious or ecstatic moments, most people belong in that slight…”— Alain de Botton, thebookoflife.orgTagged: How To Think, Psychology, Philosophy