home truths from the school of life (20 December 2016)

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.

- Alain de Botton

Maria Platero, Spain

There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.

- Alain de Botton

 Kevin Klipfel, United States


You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.

- Alain de Botton

Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.

- Alain de Botton

Elias Poland drew everything he bought for a year, Hopes and Fears

Maria Platero, Spain

Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.

- Alain de Botton

Sasha Arutyunova, United States