A good half of the art of living is resilience.
ALAIN DE BOTTONWriting isn’t a career choice. It’s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.
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The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.
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The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren’t there. The answers are there in the morning.
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Most anger stems from feelings of weakness, sadness and fear: hard to remember when one is at the receiving end of its defiant roar.
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We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.
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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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A ‘good job’ can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.
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I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.
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If our lives are dominated by a search for happiness, then perhaps few activities reveal as much about the dynamics of this quest – in all its ardour and paradoxes – than our travels.
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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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It seems that most of us could benefit from a brush with a near-fatal disaster to help us recognise the important things that we are too defeated or embittered to recognise from day to day.
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Our homes do not have to offer us permanent occupancy or store our clothes to merit the name. To speak of home in relation to a building is simply to recognise its harmony with our own prized internal song. Home can be an airport or a library, a garden or a motorway diner.
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To be shown love is to feel ourselves the object of concern: our presence is noted, our name is registered, our views are listened to, our failings are treated with indulgence and our needs are ministered to. And under such care, we flourish.
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Literature deeply stands opposed to the dominant value system-the one that rewards money and power. Writers are on the other side-they make us sympathetic to ideas and feelings that are of deep importance but can’t afford airtime in a commercialized, status-consciou s, and cynical world.
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What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think?
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It wasn’t only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.
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