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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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Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go.
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He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down, to hear that happiness was never part of the plan.
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Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.
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What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.
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Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.
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Although I don’t believe in God, Bach’s music shows me what a love of God must feel like.
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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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The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.
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Because 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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Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves.
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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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We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.
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One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is to teach us how to suffer more successfully.
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Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.
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Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.
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If one felt successful, there’d be so little incentive to be successful.
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