Christopher Lasch Quotes

The Best Defenses Against The Terrors Of Existence Are The Homely Comforts Of Love, Work, And Family Life, Which Connect Us To A World That Is Independent Of Our Wishes Yet Responsive To Our Needs. It Is Through Love And Work, As Freud Noted In A Characteristically Pungent Remark, That We Exchange Crippling Emotional Conflict For Ordinary Unhappiness. Love And Work Enable Each Of Us To Explore A Small Corner Of The World And To Come To Accept It On Its Own Terms. But Our Society Tends Either To Devalue Small Comforts Or Else To Expect Too Much Of Them. Our Standards Of "creative, Meaningful Work" Are Too Exalted To Survive Disappointment. Our Ideal Of "true Romance" Puts An Impossible Burden On Personal Relationships. We Demand Too Much Of Life, Too Little Of Ourselves.

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