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Katherine Mansfield photo

“Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become Love. This is the mystery. This is what I must do.”

Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923) New Zealand author

Journal entry (19 December 1920), published in The Journal of Katherine Mansfield (1927) edited by J. Middleton Murry

Marianne Williamson photo

“Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.”

Marianne Williamson (1952) American writer

The Law of Divine Compensation: On Work, Money, and Miracles (2012)
Source: The Law of Divine Compensation: Mastering the Metaphysics of Abundance

Marianne Williamson photo

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?”

Marianne Williamson book A Return to Love

Source: A Return to Love

“Tell me every terrible thing you ever did, and let me love you anyway.”

Sade Andria Zabala

Source: Coffee and Cigarettes

Marcus Aurelius photo

“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Source: Meditations (Promluvy k sobě)

Sören Kierkegaard photo

“Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.”

Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism

Alain de Botton photo

“It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge.”

Alain de Botton book The Architecture of Happiness

Source: The Architecture of Happiness

Alain de Botton photo

“We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.”

Alain de Botton book The Consolations of Philosophy

Source: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter III, Consolation For Frustration, p. 85.

Alain de Botton photo

“We don't really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped… We suffer, therefore we think.”

Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

Source: How Proust Can Change Your Life

Alain de Botton photo

“Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a little of who they think we are.”

Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

Source: On Love

Alain de Botton photo

“Few in this world are ever simply nasty; those who hurt us are themselves in pain. The appropriate response is hence never cynicism nor aggression but, at the rare moments one can manage it, always love.”

Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

Source: The Course of Love

Alain de Botton photo

“We should add that it is a privilege to be the recipient of a sulk: it means the other person respects and trusts us enough to think we should understand their unspoken hurt. It is one of the odder gifts of love. Eventually”

Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

Source: The Course of Love

Alain de Botton photo

“In the end, I've found that it doesn't really matter who you marry. If you like them at the beginning, you probably won't like them at the end. And if you start off hating them, there's always the chance you'll end up thinking they're all right.”

Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

Source: Essays in Love

Alain de Botton photo

“Marriage: a hopeful, generous, infinitely kind gamble taken by two people who don’t know yet who they are or who the other might be, binding themselves to a future they cannot conceive of and have carefully omitted to investigate.”

Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

Source: The Course of Love

Alain de Botton photo

“Cynics are merely idealists with unusually high standards.”

Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

Variant: Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards.
Source: The Course of Love