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The good parent: someone who doesn’t mind, for a time, being hated by their children.

Alain de Botton

There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting.
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Always Emotion Lazy Option Quote
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 problem isn’t so much finding good ideas (there is no shortage) as embedding the ones we have into everyday practice.
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Embed Everyday Find Good Practice Problem
We are presented with an unpleasant choice between either committing to peculiar concepts about immaterial deities or letting go entirely of a host of consoling, subtle or just charming rituals for which we struggle to find equivalents in secular society.
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Demonic Present Secular Society Struggle Unpleasant Virtue
The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life.
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Philosophy had supplied Socrates with convictions in which he had been able to have rational, as opposed to hysterical, confidence when faced with disapproval.
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It looks like it’s wasting time, but literature is actually the ultimate time-saver – because it gives us access to a range of emotions and events that it would take you years, decades, millennia to try to experience directly.
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We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.
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Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own – but that we could never have described on our own.
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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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Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out.
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You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you’re annoyed with them.
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Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.
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Essence Exist Existing Love Perhaps Properly Someone Speak Until
Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.
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Compare Crucial Expectation Keep Mould Other Response Temper World
My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.
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It’s as though either you accept [religious] doctrine and then you can have all the nice stuff, or you reject the doctrine and you’re living in some kind of spiritual wasteland under the guidance of CNN and Walmart.
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