So many complaints boil down to the belly ache of the fragile, mortal, ignored ego in a vast and indifferent universe.
ALAIN DE BOTTONWork finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.
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A successful work will draw out the features capable of exciting a sense of beauty and interest in the spectator.
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Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.
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If one felt successful, there’d be so little incentive to be successful.
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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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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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The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other’s smartphone.
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We are presented with an unpleasant choice between either committing to peculiar concepts about immaterial deities or letting go entirely of a host of consoling, subtle or just charming rituals for which we struggle to find equivalents in secular society.
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One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.
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The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word “luxury.
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Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own – but that we could never have described on our own.
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An argument in a couple: 2 people attempting to introduce each other to important truths – by panicked shouting.
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As victims of hurt, we frequently don’t bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day.
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to design means forcing ourselves to unlearn what we believe we already know, patiently to take apart the mechanisms behind our reflexes and to acknowledge the mystery and stupefying complexity of everyday gestures like switching off a light of turning on a tap
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Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out.
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Architects themselves tend to shy away from the word, preferring instead to talk about the manipulation of space.
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