A ‘good job’ can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.
ALAIN DE BOTTONPeople who readily accept the need for a gym will resist that their personalities might need some work too.
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The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.
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Not everyone is worth listening to.
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Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.
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To be shown love is to feel ourselves the object of concern: our presence is noted, our name is registered, our views are listened to, our failings are treated with indulgence and our needs are ministered to. And under such care, we flourish.
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If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art are perhaps a little to blame, for in them we find at work the same process of simplification or selection as in the imagination.
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Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go.
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After 40 (old age for most of man’s history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.
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Dreams reveal we never quite get ‘over’ anything: it’s all still in there somewhere.
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It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad.
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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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The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones.
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The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren’t there. The answers are there in the morning.
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The attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our own value, as a result of which affliction we tend to allow others’ appraisals to play a determining role in how we see ourselves. Our sense of identity is held captive by the judgements of those we live among.
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People who readily accept the need for a gym will resist that their personalities might need some work too.
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The very act of drawing an object, however badly, swiftly takes the drawer from a woolly sense of what the object looks like to a precise awareness of its component parts and particularities.
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