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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.

Alain de Botton

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The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.
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Art cannot single-handedly create enthusiasm… it merely contributes to enthusiasm and guides us to be more conscious of feelings that we might previously have experienced only tentatively or hurriedly.
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Conscious Contribute Create Enthusiasm Guide Merely More Single
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.
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A good half of the art of living is resilience.
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Good Half Live Resilience
The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones.
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Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.
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I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.
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Challenge Communication Feel Great Idea Time
Every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.
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Every Time Feel Little Possess Rich Satisfy
The best cure for one’s bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.
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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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The inability to live in the present lies in the fear of leaving the sheltered position of anticipation or memory, and so of admitting that this is the only life that one is ever likely (heavenly intervention aside) to live.
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Don’t despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don’t – surrender to events with hope.
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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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Annoy Learn Look Most People Significant Thing
A successful work will draw out the features capable of exciting a sense of beauty and interest in the spectator.
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Beauty Capable Excite Feature Sense Spectator Successful Work
The activities of drawing, eating and drinking, all involve assimilations by the self of desirable elements from the world, a transfer of goodness from without to within.
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Activity Assimilation Desirable Draw Drink Eat Element Goodness Involve Transfer World

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