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When you look at the Moon, you think, ‘I’m really small. What are my problems?’ It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the Moon a bit more often.

Alain de Botton

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I think people want to get married to end their emotional uncertainty. In a way, they want to end powerful feelings, or certainly the negative ones.
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We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers… Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness.
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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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Unnatural to expect that learning to be happy should be any easier than, say, learning to play the violin or require any less practice.
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Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.
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We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.
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As victims of hurt, we frequently don’t bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day.
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Differ though we might with Christianity’s view of what precisely our souls need, it is hard to discredit the provocative underlying thesis.
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Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.
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The most attractive are not those who allow us to kiss them at once [we soon feel ungrateful] or those who never allow us to kiss them [we soon forget them], but those who coyly lead us between the two extremes.
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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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When you look at the Moon, you think, ‘I’m really small. What are my problems?’ It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the Moon a bit more often.
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We need a refuge to shore up our states of mind, because so much of the world is opposed to our allegiances. We need our rooms to align us to desirable versions of ourselves and to keep alive the important, evanescent sides of us.
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We envy only those whom we feel ourselves to be like; we envy only members of our reference group. There are few successes more unendurable than those of our close friends.
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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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It wasn’t only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.
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