I went to church and couldn’t swallow it. The music was nice but I don’t belong there.
ALAIN DE BOTTONMost of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves.
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We don’t really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped … We suffer, therefore we think.
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Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.
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It wasn’t only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.
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Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.
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Most of what makes a book ‘good’ is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.
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We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers… Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness.
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The longing for a destiny is no nowhere stronger than in our romantic life. All too often forced to share our bed with those who cannot fathom our soul, can we not be forgiven if we believe ourselves fated to stumble one day upon the man or woman of our dreams.
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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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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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The problem is if you really believe in a society where those who merit to get to the top, get to the top, you’ll also, by implication … believe in a society where those who deserve to get to the bottom also get to the bottom and stay there.
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The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy.
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An argument in a couple: 2 people attempting to introduce each other to important truths – by panicked shouting.
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True love is a lack of desire to check one’s smartphone in another’s presence.
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Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.
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Our jobs make relentless calls on a narrow band of our faculties, reducing our chances of achieving rounded personalities and leaving us to suspect (often in the gathering darkness of a Sunday evening) that much of who we are, or could be, has gone unexplored.
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