True love is a lack of desire to check one’s smartphone in another’s presence.
ALAIN DE BOTTONHow do the stems connect to the roots?’ ‘Where is the mist coming from?’ ‘Why does one tree seem darker than another?’ These questions are implicitly asked and answered in the process of sketching.
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Work is most fulfilling when you’re at the comfortable, exciting edge of not quite knowing what you are doing.
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We keep a special place in our hearts for people who refuse to be impressed by us.
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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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Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.
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Most good thinking has its origin in fear.
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What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty.
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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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Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one’s own ambitions.
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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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When work is not going well, it’s useful to remember that our identities stretch beyond what is on the business card, that we were people long before we became workers – and will continue to be human once we have put our tools down forever.
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As victims of hurt, we frequently don’t bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day.
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We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.
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Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.
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Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet.
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As we write, so we build: to keep a record of what matters to us.
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