Most anger stems from feelings of weakness, sadness and fear: hard to remember when one is at the receiving end of its defiant roar.
ALAIN DE BOTTONIntuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.
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Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.
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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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Yet often, they know but just don’t care. So the task of serious journalism isn’t just to lay out truths. It is to make vital truths compelling to a big audience.
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After 40 (old age for most of man’s history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.
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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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I passionately believe that’s it’s not just what you say that counts, it’s also how you say it – that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.
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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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One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.
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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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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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People who readily accept the need for a gym will resist that their personalities might need some work too.
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If one felt successful, there’d be so little incentive to be successful.
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Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet.
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Because it’s bad enough not getting what you want, but it’s even worse to have an idea of what it is you want and find out at the end of the journey that it isn’t, in fact, what you wanted all along.
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The problem is if you really believe in a society where those who merit to get to the top, get to the top, you’ll also, by implication … believe in a society where those who deserve to get to the bottom also get to the bottom and stay there.
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