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To one’s enemies: “I hate myself more than you ever could.

Alain de Botton

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If our lives are dominated by a search for happiness, then perhaps few activities reveal as much about the dynamics of this quest – in all its ardour and paradoxes – than our travels.
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People who readily accept the need for a gym will resist that their personalities might need some work too.
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Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.
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The problem is if you really believe in a society where those who merit to get to the top, get to the top, you’ll also, by implication … believe in a society where those who deserve to get to the bottom also get to the bottom and stay there.
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Must being in love always mean being in pain?
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Social media has lots of benefits, but compared to Christianity, it tends to group people by interests. Religion puts you with people who have nothing in common except that you’re human.
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One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.
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Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.
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What kills us isn’t one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can’t turn down for fear of disappointing others.
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Serious journalists often imagine society is adrift because people don’t know certain things.
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You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.
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It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.
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Our minds are susceptible to the influence of external voices telling us what we require to be satisfied, voices that may drown out the faint sounds emitted by our souls and distract us from the careful, arduous task of accurately naming our priorities.
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I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living.
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Politics is so difficult, it’s generally only people who aren’t quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.
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Our disrespect for thinking: someone sitting in a chair, gazing out of a window blankly, always described as ‘doing nothing’.
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