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I have always been surprised by people describing love as a kind of disease, over which a human being has no power and which he simply catches, like cold. Isn’t it absurd to build the most important of your relations on mindless instinct that is in no way related to you...

My attitude towards life has always been based on the gnawing realization of how short it is. Come to think of it, with the average life expectancy being from 50 to 70 years and so many accidental events that may shorten it even more, isn’t it frightening to think that ...

What is a home? We all, of course, know that it is not simply a place of residence - not every place where you live may be considered to be your home, although it is always a good idea to try and turn it into one. But what is it then?

Responsibility is one of the most important aspects of a human existence and personality. It is responsibility for one’s actions that makes a human. It is a commonly accepted idea that the person who is not taking responsibility for his or her actions should not and cannot...

Henry Ford used to say that a leader is not supposed to know everything, but should have at his disposal people that do. The same goes, in my opinion, for every kind of leadership. A true leader is not the one who knows exactly everything about everything and always takes...

Every person has to summarize his or her life once in a while. This action is generally associated with elderly people, but, in my opinion, the earlier you start to do it and the more often you do it, the better you understand who you are, and what you have to do next. Th...

What may serve as a better and more universal symbol of civilization in general and Western civilization in particular, if not the car? The car, being an individual means of transportation, reflects the individualistic nature of the West better than anything else.

Very often you may hear people saying how much they love mountains, the scenery there, the power of sheer cliffs, the purity of air and so on and so forth. Very often, however, it turns out that they love mountains “in absentia”, by default, because one is supposed to...

Wherever more than one person are working together, there inevitably sooner or later will arise a situation that will lead to a conflict between some or all the people involved – it is the truth of life. There are no completely monolithic work-groups; for there are no i...

Whom do you consider to be your best friend and why? Is it somebody with whom you have spent the most of your life? Or maybe it is someone with whom you share your most important interests? Your spouse? One of your parents? Your dog, after all? Whoever it is, the best fri...