The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.
ALAIN DE BOTTONWe each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to the wider world to settle the question of our significance.. we seem beholden to affections of others to endure ourselves.
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Art cannot single-handedly create enthusiasm… it merely contributes to enthusiasm and guides us to be more conscious of feelings that we might previously have experienced only tentatively or hurriedly.
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Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of a few blunt, large questions.
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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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The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.
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It looks like it’s wasting time, but literature is actually the ultimate time-saver – because it gives us access to a range of emotions and events that it would take you years, decades, millennia to try to experience directly.
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Maturity: knowing where you’re crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.
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There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your 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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One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?
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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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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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At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.
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Happiness is impossible for longer than 15 minutes. We are the descendants of creatures who, above all else, worried.
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Without sex, we would be dangerously invulnerable. We might believe we were not ridiculous. We wouldn’t know rejection and humiliation so intimately.
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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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