The good parent: someone who doesn’t mind, for a time, being hated by their children.
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Architects themselves tend to shy away from the word, preferring instead to talk about the manipulation of space.
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The good parent: someone who doesn’t mind, for a time, being hated by their children.
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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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Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene can decline with every click of the shutter.
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A ‘good job’ can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.
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There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.
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The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.
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The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy.
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Our jobs make relentless calls on a narrow band of our faculties, reducing our chances of achieving rounded personalities and leaving us to suspect (often in the gathering darkness of a Sunday evening) that much of who we are, or could be, has gone unexplored.
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Those who divorce aren’t necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person.
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The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word “luxury.
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One of our major flaws, and causes of unhappiness, is that we find it hard to take note of appreciate and be grateful for what is always around us. We suffer because we lose sight of the value of what is before us and yearn, often unfairly, for the imagined attraction elsewhere.
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As an atheist, I think there are lots of things religions get up to which are of value to non-believers – and one of those things is trying to be a bit better than we normally manage to be.
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The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.
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