Endeavoring to purchase something we think beautiful may in fact be the most unimaginative way of dealing with the longing it excites in us, just as trying to sleep with someone may be the bluntest response to a feeling of love.
ALAIN DE BOTTONYou need a long hard day’s work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol.
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It’s perhaps easier now than ever before to make a good living; it’s perhaps harder than ever before to stay calm, to be free of career anxiety.
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Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.
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Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.
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True love is a lack of desire to check one’s smartphone in another’s presence.
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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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I think people want to get married to end their emotional uncertainty. In a way, they want to end powerful feelings, or certainly the negative ones.
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Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.
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As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.
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One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.
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Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains.
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Must being in love always mean being in pain?
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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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Philosophy had supplied Socrates with convictions in which he had been able to have rational, as opposed to hysterical, confidence when faced with disapproval.
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Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.
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It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is.
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