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There is real danger of a disconnect between what’s on your business card and who you are deep inside, and it’s not a disconnect that the world is ready to be patient with.

Alain de Botton

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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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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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Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.
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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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The largest part of what we call ‘personality’ is determined by how we’ve opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness”.
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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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One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is to teach us how to suffer more successfully.
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The best cure for one’s bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.
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In the oasis complex, the thirsty man images he sees water, palm trees, and shade not because he has evidence for the belief, but because he has a need for it. Desperate needs bring about a hallucination of their solution: thirst hallucinates water.
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Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.
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Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.
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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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Most of what makes a book ‘good’ is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.
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A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.
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There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.
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