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The only way to be happy is to realise how much depends on how you look at things

Alain de Botton

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Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people.
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The more closely we analyze what we consider ‘sexy,’ the more clearly we will understand that eroticism is the feeling of excitement we experience at finding another human being who shares our values and our sense of the meaning of existence.
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Politics is so difficult, it’s generally only people who aren’t quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.
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There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.
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One’s doing well if age improves even slightly one’s capacity to hold on to that vital truism: “This too shall pass.
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To one’s enemies: “I hate myself more than you ever could.
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Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.
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Our homes do not have to offer us permanent occupancy or store our clothes to merit the name. To speak of home in relation to a building is simply to recognise its harmony with our own prized internal song. Home can be an airport or a library, a garden or a motorway diner.
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Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we see before us, melancholy at an awareness of how seldom we are sufficiently blessed to encounter anything of its kind.
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Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it.
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When work is not going well, it’s useful to remember that our identities stretch beyond what is on the business card, that we were people long before we became workers – and will continue to be human once we have put our tools down forever.
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It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however calming, was also a reminder of infidelity to what I had at one time held so dear.
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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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Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.
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It’s hard loving those who don’t much like themselves: “If you’re so great, why would you think I’m so great.
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Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.
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A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.
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Cynics are – beneath it all – only idealists with awkwardly high standards.
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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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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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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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So many complaints boil down to the belly ache of the fragile, mortal, ignored ego in a vast and indifferent universe.
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Memory is… similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.
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Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom.
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Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves.
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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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A successful work will draw out the features capable of exciting a sense of beauty and interest in the spectator.
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