A good half of the art of living is resilience.
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It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however calming, was also a reminder of infidelity to what I had at one time held so dear.
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A good half of the art of living is resilience.
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Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.
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Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains.
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So many complaints boil down to the belly ache of the fragile, mortal, ignored ego in a vast and indifferent universe.
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Social media has lots of benefits, but compared to Christianity, it tends to group people by interests. Religion puts you with people who have nothing in common except that you’re human.
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There’s a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.
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Not everyone is worth listening to.
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Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough.
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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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Newspapers are being read all around. The point is not, of course, to glean new information, but rather to coax the mind out of its sleep-induced introspective temper.
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Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.
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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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The most attractive are not those who allow us to kiss them at once [we soon feel ungrateful] or those who never allow us to kiss them [we soon forget them], but those who coyly lead us between the two extremes.
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It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad.
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The happiness that may emerge from taking a second look is central to Proust’s therapeutic conception. It reveals the extent to which our dissatisfactions may be the result of failing to look properly at our lives rather than the result of anything inherently deficient about them.
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Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go.
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