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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.

Alain de Botton

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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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What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think?
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Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it.
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Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.
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In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.
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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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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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…if the beginnings of love and amorous politics are equally rosy, then the ends may be equally bloody.
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Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.
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Cynics are – beneath it all – only idealists with awkwardly high standards.
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Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole.
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There are selections so acute that they come to define a place, with the result that we can no longer travel through that landscape without being reminded of what a great artist noticed there.
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People who readily accept the need for a gym will resist that their personalities might need some work too.
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Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value.
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Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.
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Content Less Perhaps Play Practice Require Well
The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy.
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