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Most good thinking has its origin in fear.

Alain de Botton

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The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.
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If one felt successful, there’d be so little incentive to be successful.
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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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Work is most fulfilling when you’re at the comfortable, exciting edge of not quite knowing what you are doing.
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Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.
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Mauch Sign Taken Understand Understood
What kills us isn’t one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can’t turn down for fear of disappointing others.
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Disappoint Kill Obligation Other Thing Thousand
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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Anger End Fear Feel Most Receive Remember Weakness
One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?
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Ask Author Book Kind Know Leave One
People who readily accept the need for a gym will resist that their personalities might need some work too.
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Gym Need People Readily Resist Some Work
Happiness is impossible for longer than 15 minutes. We are the descendants of creatures who, above all else, worried.
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Above Creature Descendant Happiness Impossible Longer Minute Worry
True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.
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Majority People Reason Respectability Stem
Curiosity takes ignorance seriously – and is confident enough to admit when it’s in the dark. It is aware of not knowing. And then it sets out to do something about it.
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Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.
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Badly Begin Exceed Fear Finally Nothing
Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one’s own ambitions.
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Ambition Confuse Envy Tangle
…if the beginnings of love and amorous politics are equally rosy, then the ends may be equally bloody.
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Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole.
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Capture Choice Every Realistic Feature Given Paint Picture Prominence Reality Represent

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