Showing posts with label The School of Life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The School of Life. Show all posts

 

"Part of why we feel the need for so many new experiences may simply be that we are so bad at absorbing the ones we have had."

A Simpler Life by The School of Life


"...Venetian cristallo glass doesn't apologize for its weakness. It admits its delicacy; it is confident enough to demand careful treatment; it makes the world understand that it could be easily damaged."

Art Against Despair by The School of Life

"...one of our central motives for travelling is a desire to put the regrettable aspects of the past behind us...one of the most effective ways of achieving a feeling of distance from follies, vanity and sinfulness is to introduce something very large -- like the experience of a month-long journey across a desert or a mountain range...If inner change is difficult, then we may need a commensurately difficult outer journey to goad and inspire us."

How to Travel by The School of Life