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We often lose our tempers not with those who are actually to blame; just with those who love us enough to forgive us our foul moods.

Alain de Botton

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In the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation.
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Cynics are – beneath it all – only idealists with awkwardly high standards.
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Out of the millions of people we live among, most of whom we habitually ignore and are ignored by in turn, there are always a few that hold hostage our capacity for happiness, whom we could recognize by their smell alone and whom we would rather die than be without.
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Most good thinking has its origin in fear.
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Work is most fulfilling when you’re at the comfortable, exciting edge of not quite knowing what you are doing.
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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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We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.
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Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.
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We need a home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for a vulnerability.
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True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.
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We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to the wider world to settle the question of our significance.. we seem beholden to affections of others to endure ourselves.
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The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other’s smartphone.
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Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.
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A good half of the art of living is resilience.
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