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Work is most fulfilling when you’re at the comfortable, exciting edge of not quite knowing what you are doing.

Alain de Botton

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A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.
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Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.
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We are not always humiliated by failing; we are humiliated only if we first invest our pride and sense of worth in a given achievement and then do not reach it.
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Serious journalists often imagine society is adrift because people don’t know certain things.
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As we write, so we build: to keep a record of what matters to us.
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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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The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones.
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The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.
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The more closely we analyze what we consider ‘sexy,’ the more clearly we will understand that eroticism is the feeling of excitement we experience at finding another human being who shares our values and our sense of the meaning of existence.
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The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren’t there. The answers are there in the morning.
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William James once made an acute point about the relationship between happiness and expectation. He argued that satisfaction with ourselves does not require us to succeed in every endeavour.
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True love is a lack of desire to check one’s smartphone in another’s presence.
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Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude – not a punishment for making money.
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Don’t despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don’t – surrender to events with hope.
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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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Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.
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