The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren't there. The answers are there in the morning.

He [Wordsworth] invited his readers to abandon their usual perspective and to consider for a time how the world might look through other eyes, to shuttle between the human and the natural perspective. Why might this be interesting, or even inspiring? Perhaps because unhappiness can stem from only having one perspective to play with.

Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person.

Marriage: a deeply peculiar and ultimately unkind thing to inflict on anyone one claims to care for.

On paper, being good sounds great but a lot depends on the atmosphere of the workplace or community we live in. We tend to become good or bad depending on the cues sent out within a particular space.

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