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The best cure for one’s bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.

Alain de Botton

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True love is a lack of desire to check one’s smartphone in another’s presence.
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Work is most fulfilling when you’re at the comfortable, exciting edge of not quite knowing what you are doing.
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We are like an exquisite high-speed aircraft which for lack of a tiny part is left stranded beside the runway, rendered slower than a tractor or bicycle.
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The best cure for one’s bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.
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Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.
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One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is to teach us how to suffer more successfully.
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Our jobs make relentless calls on a narrow band of our faculties, reducing our chances of achieving rounded personalities and leaving us to suspect (often in the gathering darkness of a Sunday evening) that much of who we are, or could be, has gone unexplored.
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One’s doing well if age improves even slightly one’s capacity to hold on to that vital truism: “This too shall pass.
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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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To one’s enemies: “I hate myself more than you ever could.
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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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Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet.
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Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.
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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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Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.
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