It wasn’t only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.
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A ‘good job’ can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.
More Alain de Botton Quotes
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It wasn’t only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.
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William James once made an acute point about the relationship between happiness and expectation. He argued that satisfaction with ourselves does not require us to succeed in every endeavour.
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A good half of the art of living is resilience.
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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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Our minds are susceptible to the influence of external voices telling us what we require to be satisfied, voices that may drown out the faint sounds emitted by our souls and distract us from the careful, arduous task of accurately naming our priorities.
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Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value.
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The problem isn’t so much finding good ideas (there is no shortage) as embedding the ones we have into everyday practice.
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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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Dreams reveal we never quite get ‘over’ anything: it’s all still in there somewhere.
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In the works of Lucretius, we find two reasons why we shouldn’t worry about death. If you have had a successful life, Lucretius tell us, there’s no reason to mind its end. And, if you haven’t had a good time, “Why do you seek to add more years, which would also pass but ill?”
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Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves.
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The only way to be happy is to realise how much depends on how you look at things
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It’s perhaps easier now than ever before to make a good living; it’s perhaps harder than ever before to stay calm, to be free of career anxiety.
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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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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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