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Unnatural to expect that learning to be happy should be any easier than, say, learning to play the violin or require any less practice.

Alain de Botton

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Yet often, they know but just don’t care. So the task of serious journalism isn’t just to lay out truths. It is to make vital truths compelling to a big audience.
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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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Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.
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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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Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.
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For paranoia about ‘what other people think’ : remember that only some hate, a very few love – and almost all just don’t care.
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Which seems no less relevant in the secular realm than in the religious one-that we have within us a precious, childlike, vulnerable core which we should nourish and nurture on its turbulent journey through life.
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There is real danger of a disconnect between what’s on your business card and who you are deep inside, and it’s not a disconnect that the world is ready to be patient with.
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Business Card Danger Dep Disconnect Inside
Happiness is impossible for longer than 15 minutes. We are the descendants of creatures who, above all else, worried.
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How generous was it to offer gifts to people one knew would never accept them?
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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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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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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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It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.
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Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.
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