In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.
ALAIN DE BOTTONThere may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.
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Most anger stems from feelings of weakness, sadness and fear: hard to remember when one is at the receiving end of its defiant roar.
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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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Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.
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Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.
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There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.
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Because the rhythm of conversation makes no allowance for dead periods, because the presence of others calls for continuous responses, we are left to regret the inanity of what we say, and the missed opportunity of what we do not.
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The problem isn’t so much finding good ideas (there is no shortage) as embedding the ones we have into everyday practice.
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…if the beginnings of love and amorous politics are equally rosy, then the ends may be equally bloody.
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Literature is the greatest reality simulator – a machine that puts you through infinitely more situations than you can ever directly witness.
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You need a long hard day’s work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol.
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A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.
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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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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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Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.
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