The School of Life: On Failure: How to succeed at defeat

We should ask ourselves: is this a person who would stay by me when everyone else is laughing, who wouldn’t run away if I had no more

We’ll have fulfilled the promise of our pain and self-abnegation when we succeed in placing something compellingly meaningful at the centre of our scarred lives: a deserving cause beyond us. It might be a job, a project, a suffering child or adult … We have no option but to forget ourselves and to live for others.

What Love Really Is and

money, who would stick around if I had enemies or was driven off to jail …? These