Being properly mature involves a frank, unfrightened relationship with one’s own darkness, complexity and ambition. It involves accepting that not everything that makes us happy will please others or be honoured as especially ‘nice’, but it can be important to explore and hold on to it nevertheless.
~Alain de Botton
(From the book: The School of Life)
(Art: Photograph of musician Chet Baker By G. Bruce Boyer)
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