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Which seems no less relevant in the secular realm than in the religious one-that we have within us a precious, childlike, vulnerable core which we should nourish and nurture on its turbulent journey through life.

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It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.
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Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people.
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The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones.
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Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.
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Must being in love always mean being in pain?
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Work is most fulfilling when you’re at the comfortable, exciting edge of not quite knowing what you are doing.
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As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.
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Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others – because it’s a tool to help us live and die with a little bit more wisdom, goodness, and sanity.
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The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.
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Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style.
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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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The 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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