Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains.
ALAIN DE BOTTONBecause it’s bad enough not getting what you want, but it’s even worse to have an idea of what it is you want and find out at the end of the journey that it isn’t, in fact, what you wanted all along.
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Good sex isn’t just fun, it keeps us sane and happy. Having sex with someone makes us feel wanted, alive and potent.
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Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.
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Literature is the greatest reality simulator – a machine that puts you through infinitely more situations than you can ever directly witness.
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Without sex, we would be dangerously invulnerable. We might believe we were not ridiculous. We wouldn’t know rejection and humiliation so intimately.
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A ‘good job’ can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.
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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 blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones.
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There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting.
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We often lose our tempers not with those who are actually to blame; just with those who love us enough to forgive us our foul moods.
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Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories: the story of our quest for sexual love and the story of our quest for love from the world.
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Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style.
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There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.
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Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own – but that we could never have described on our own.
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Dreams reveal we never quite get ‘over’ anything: it’s all still in there somewhere.
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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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