MDS

“And it is not possible for us, by our most chimerical wishes, to form the idea of a station or situation altogether desirable.”
― Christopher Hamilton, How to Deal with Adversity

“All of us are inconsiderate and imprudent, all unreliable, dissatisfied, ambitious … corrupt,’ as the Roman philosopher Seneca reminds us pithily. ‘Therefore, whatever fault he censures in another man, every man will find it residing in his own heart’ (‘On Anger’: 40).”
― Christopher Hamilton, How to Deal with Adversity

“Being an individual is not so much a matter of doing what others have not done or do not do, as it is a matter of doing it in a spirit expressive of your whole being. If you do this, then, as Gould says, you do not beat death; but death cannot beat you.”
― Christopher Hamilton, How to Deal with Adversity

“the only way a marriage can be successful is that the husband is scared shitless of his wife”
― Christopher Hamilton, How to Deal with Adversity