Those who divorce aren’t necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person.
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Which seems no less relevant in the secular realm than in the religious one-that we have within us a precious, childlike, vulnerable core which we should nourish and nurture on its turbulent journey through life.
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Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of a few blunt, large questions.
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When work is not going well, it’s useful to remember that our identities stretch beyond what is on the business card, that we were people long before we became workers – and will continue to be human once we have put our tools down forever.
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We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.
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These inventors were elevating the formulation of entrepreneurial ideas to the status of a visionary activity. Though forced to justify their efforts in the pragmatic language of venture capital, they were at heart utopian thinkers intent on transforming the world.
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A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.
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Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories: the story of our quest for sexual love and the story of our quest for love from the world.
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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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It’s as though either you accept [religious] doctrine and then you can have all the nice stuff, or you reject the doctrine and you’re living in some kind of spiritual wasteland under the guidance of CNN and Walmart.
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The problem isn’t so much finding good ideas (there is no shortage) as embedding the ones we have into everyday practice.
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One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.
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Out of the millions of people we live among, most of whom we habitually ignore and are ignored by in turn, there are always a few that hold hostage our capacity for happiness, whom we could recognize by their smell alone and whom we would rather die than be without.
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Serious journalists often imagine society is adrift because people don’t know certain things.
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I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.
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