The longing for a destiny is no nowhere stronger than in our romantic life. All too often forced to share our bed with those who cannot fathom our soul, can we not be forgiven if we believe ourselves fated to stumble one day upon the man or woman of our dreams.
ALAIN DE BOTTONThe problem is if you really believe in a society where those who merit to get to the top, get to the top, you’ll also, by implication … believe in a society where those who deserve to get to the bottom also get to the bottom and stay there.
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Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom.
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At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.
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Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.
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Our homes do not have to offer us permanent occupancy or store our clothes to merit the name. To speak of home in relation to a building is simply to recognise its harmony with our own prized internal song. Home can be an airport or a library, a garden or a motorway diner.
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We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.
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The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.
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These inventors were elevating the formulation of entrepreneurial ideas to the status of a visionary activity. Though forced to justify their efforts in the pragmatic language of venture capital, they were at heart utopian thinkers intent on transforming the world.
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What should worry us is not the number of people that oppose us, but how good their reasons are for doing so.
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Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.
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Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves.
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I think people want to get married to end their emotional uncertainty. In a way, they want to end powerful feelings, or certainly the negative ones.
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The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.
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The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.
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The activities of drawing, eating and drinking, all involve assimilations by the self of desirable elements from the world, a transfer of goodness from without to within.
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The only way to be happy is to realise how much depends on how you look at things
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