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What I want to argue for is not that we should give up on our ideas of success, but that we should make sure that they are our own. We should focus in on our ideas and make sure that we own them, that we’re truly the authors of our own ambitions.

Alain de Botton

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Most good thinking has its origin in fear.
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Our minds are susceptible to the influence of external voices telling us what we require to be satisfied, voices that may drown out the faint sounds emitted by our souls and distract us from the careful, arduous task of accurately naming our priorities.
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The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.
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William James once made an acute point about the relationship between happiness and expectation. He argued that satisfaction with ourselves does not require us to succeed in every endeavour.
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Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough.
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The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.
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Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out.
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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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We need a home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for a vulnerability.
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Serious journalists often imagine society is adrift because people don’t know certain things.
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True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.
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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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People who readily accept the need for a gym will resist that their personalities might need some work too.
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There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting.
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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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Our disrespect for thinking: someone sitting in a chair, gazing out of a window blankly, always described as ‘doing nothing’.
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