We often lose our tempers not with those who are actually to blame; just with those who love us enough to forgive us our foul moods.
ALAIN DE BOTTONAn argument in a couple: 2 people attempting to introduce each other to important truths – by panicked shouting.
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Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.
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The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.
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Architects themselves tend to shy away from the word, preferring instead to talk about the manipulation of space.
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We don’t really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped … We suffer, therefore we think.
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Every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.
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The only way to be happy is to realise how much depends on how you look at things
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Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out.
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It is not just nature that defies us. Human life is as overwhelming… If we spend time in it [the vast spaces of nature], they may help us to accept more graciously the great, unfathomable events that molest our lives and will inevitably return us to dust.
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We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.
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You need a long hard day’s work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol.
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Although I don’t believe in God, Bach’s music shows me what a love of God must feel like.
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Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people.
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Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.
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The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other’s smartphone.
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An argument in a couple: 2 people attempting to introduce each other to important truths – by panicked shouting.
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