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He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down, to hear that happiness was never part of the plan.

Alain de Botton

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People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.
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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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The good parent: someone who doesn’t mind, for a time, being hated by their children.
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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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Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.
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Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it.
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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 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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Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we yearn for something we cannot afford, we grow poorer, whatever our resources. And every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.
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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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Good sex isn’t just fun, it keeps us sane and happy. Having sex with someone makes us feel wanted, alive and potent.
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Architects themselves tend to shy away from the word, preferring instead to talk about the manipulation of space.
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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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Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.
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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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