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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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Those who divorce aren’t necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person.
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I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.
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The flawless object throws into perspective the mediocrity that surrounds it. We are reminded of the way we would wish things always to be and of how incomplete our lives remain.
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It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.
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We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.
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The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.
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The mind may be reluctant to think properly when thinking is all it is supposed to do; the task can be as paralysing as having to tell a joke or mimic an accent on demand.
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We envy only those whom we feel ourselves to be like; we envy only members of our reference group. There are few successes more unendurable than those of our close friends.
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Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone – and finding that that’s ok with them.
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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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There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.
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The best cure for one’s bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.
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Although I don’t believe in God, Bach’s music shows me what a love of God must feel like.
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Social media has lots of benefits, but compared to Christianity, it tends to group people by interests. Religion puts you with people who have nothing in common except that you’re human.
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Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn’t find anyone to talk to.
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Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we see before us, melancholy at an awareness of how seldom we are sufficiently blessed to encounter anything of its kind.
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Most good thinking has its origin in fear.
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How generous was it to offer gifts to people one knew would never accept them?
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One’s doing well if age improves even slightly one’s capacity to hold on to that vital truism: “This too shall pass.
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The happiness that may emerge from taking a second look is central to Proust’s therapeutic conception. It reveals the extent to which our dissatisfactions may be the result of failing to look properly at our lives rather than the result of anything inherently deficient about them.
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One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.
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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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The activities of drawing, eating and drinking, all involve assimilations by the self of desirable elements from the world, a transfer of goodness from without to within.
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A successful work will draw out the features capable of exciting a sense of beauty and interest in the spectator.
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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 difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.
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The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones.
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