We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.
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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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We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.
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It’s as though either you accept [religious] doctrine and then you can have all the nice stuff, or you reject the doctrine and you’re living in some kind of spiritual wasteland under the guidance of CNN and Walmart.
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We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.
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Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.
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Mental health: having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle.
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Rage is caused by a conviction, almost comic in its optimistic origins (however tragic in its effects), that a given frustration has not been written into the contract of life.
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Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.
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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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We keep a special place in our hearts for people who refuse to be impressed by us.
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It’s perhaps easier now than ever before to make a good living; it’s perhaps harder than ever before to stay calm, to be free of career anxiety.
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There is real danger of a disconnect between what’s on your business card and who you are deep inside, and it’s not a disconnect that the world is ready to be patient with.
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The most attractive are not those who allow us to kiss them at once [we soon feel ungrateful] or those who never allow us to kiss them [we soon forget them], but those who coyly lead us between the two extremes.
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Good sex isn’t just fun, it keeps us sane and happy. Having sex with someone makes us feel wanted, alive and potent.
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It is not just nature that defies us. Human life is as overwhelming… If we spend time in it [the vast spaces of nature], they may help us to accept more graciously the great, unfathomable events that molest our lives and will inevitably return us to dust.
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