Retweets

Alain de Botton has had some good ones on twitter lately:

Like shyness, signs of aging can be erotic - and for the same reason: as tokens of vulnerability.

To be as tough as the world to give kids the strength to deal with it eventually, or to be far less tough - for the very same reason.

There are books that plant a flag on interesting territory without being able to hold it.

Being ignored is so horrible, many of the world's greatest companies were founded by people intent on avoiding the feeling.

So many relationships spoilt by our tendency to become mean when we are in fact hurt.

An astonishing number of conflicts and catastrophes can be traced back to the brute fact that one of the parties hasn't slept enough.

The scale of the success you need is determined by the intensity of your self-hatred.

'He had had success, but it didn't begin to cover his self-loathing...'

And if you want to hurt your head, read this article on paradoxical truth from the Stone.