Not everyone is worth listening to.
ALAIN DE BOTTONThe difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.
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Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude – not a punishment for making money.
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Art cannot single-handedly create enthusiasm… it merely contributes to enthusiasm and guides us to be more conscious of feelings that we might previously have experienced only tentatively or hurriedly.
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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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Most of what makes a book ‘good’ is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.
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The only people we can think of as normal are those we don’t yet know very well.
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The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.
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Serious journalists often imagine society is adrift because people don’t know certain things.
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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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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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Must being in love always mean being in pain?
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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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You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.
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I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.
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Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough.
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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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