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Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough.

Alain de Botton

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Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.
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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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Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains.
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Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough.
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Anyone Embarrass Enough Larn Last Live Probably
Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene can decline with every click of the shutter.
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Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.
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Newspapers are being read all around. The point is not, of course, to glean new information, but rather to coax the mind out of its sleep-induced introspective temper.
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One of our major flaws, and causes of unhappiness, is that we find it hard to take note of appreciate and be grateful for what is always around us. We suffer because we lose sight of the value of what is before us and yearn, often unfairly, for the imagined attraction elsewhere.
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One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.
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In the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation.
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Dreams reveal we never quite get ‘over’ anything: it’s all still in there somewhere.
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In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer’s words, to turn pain into knowledge.
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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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One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.
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It seems that most of us could benefit from a brush with a near-fatal disaster to help us recognise the important things that we are too defeated or embittered to recognise from day to day.
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We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers… Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness.
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