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Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.

Alain de Botton

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Because it’s bad enough not getting what you want, but it’s even worse to have an idea of what it is you want and find out at the end of the journey that it isn’t, in fact, what you wanted all along.
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Unnatural to expect that learning to be happy should be any easier than, say, learning to play the violin or require any less practice.
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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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There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.
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Our disrespect for thinking: someone sitting in a chair, gazing out of a window blankly, always described as ‘doing nothing’.
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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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Our minds are susceptible to the influence of external voices telling us what we require to be satisfied, voices that may drown out the faint sounds emitted by our souls and distract us from the careful, arduous task of accurately naming our priorities.
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My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.
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Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.
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It seems that most of us could benefit from a brush with a near-fatal disaster to help us recognise the important things that we are too defeated or embittered to recognise from day to day.
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When Proust urges us to evaluate the world properly, he repeatedly reminds us of the value of modest scenes.
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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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Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.
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A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up the necessary receptivity and when new information is therefore as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain.
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Must being in love always mean being in pain?
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The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.
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