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Most good thinking has its origin in fear.

Alain de Botton

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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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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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Embed Everyday Find Good Practice Problem
As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.
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I am in general a very pessimistic person with an optimistic, day to day take on things. The bare facts of life are utterly terrifying. And yet, one can laugh. Indeed, one has to laugh precisely because of the darkness: the nervous laughter of the trenches.
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We need a refuge to shore up our states of mind, because so much of the world is opposed to our allegiances. We need our rooms to align us to desirable versions of ourselves and to keep alive the important, evanescent sides of us.
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Allegiance Desirable Important Mind Need Oppose Shore Site State Version World
We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.
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Attention Fortune Greater Look People Reason Respect Seek Straight
People who readily accept the need for a gym will resist that their personalities might need some work too.
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Rage is caused by a conviction, almost comic in its optimistic origins (however tragic in its effects), that a given frustration has not been written into the contract of life.
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You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you’re annoyed with them.
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There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.
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Balance Everything Fight Life Such Thing Unbalance Work
We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.
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Angry Cease Hopeful Once
Maturity: knowing where you’re crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.
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The only people we can think of as normal are those we don’t yet know very well.
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Normal Very Only People Think Well
Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.
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Act Best Most Revenge Victory Way
A good half of the art of living is resilience.
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A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.
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