Mental health: having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle.
ALAIN DE BOTTONThe 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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Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others – because it’s a tool to help us live and die with a little bit more wisdom, goodness, and sanity.
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The need for love hallucinates a prince or princess. The oasis complex is never a complete delusion: the man in the desert does see something on the horizon. It is just that the palms have withered, the well is dry, and the place is infected with locusts.
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It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad.
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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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Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one’s own ambitions.
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Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value.
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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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We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.
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There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.
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Must being in love always mean being in pain?
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Unnatural to expect that learning to be happy should be any easier than, say, learning to play the violin or require any less practice.
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The media insists on taking what someone didn’t mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.
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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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There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting.
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True love is a lack of desire to check one’s smartphone in another’s presence.
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