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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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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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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Most good thinking has its origin in fear.
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One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?
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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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The only way to be happy is to realise how much depends on how you look at things
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Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.
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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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One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.
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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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Because the rhythm of conversation makes no allowance for dead periods, because the presence of others calls for continuous responses, we are left to regret the inanity of what we say, and the missed opportunity of what we do not.
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Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.
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Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves.
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Socrates, on being insulted in the marketplace, asked by a passerby, “Don’t you worry about being called names?” retorted, “Why? Do you think I should resent it if an ass had kicked me?
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The mind may be reluctant to think properly when thinking is all it is supposed to do; the task can be as paralysing as having to tell a joke or mimic an accent on demand.
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The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can’t accept that.
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