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Maturity: knowing where you’re crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.

Alain de Botton

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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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What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.
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Social media has lots of benefits, but compared to Christianity, it tends to group people by interests. Religion puts you with people who have nothing in common except that you’re human.
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How generous was it to offer gifts to people one knew would never accept them?
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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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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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Look Moon More Often Perspective Problem Really Small Think
Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom.
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Without sex, we would be dangerously invulnerable. We might believe we were not ridiculous. We wouldn’t know rejection and humiliation so intimately.
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Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a little of who they think we are.
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Most good thinking has its origin in fear.
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Fera Good Most Origin Think
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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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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Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.
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Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.
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What should worry us is not the number of people that oppose us, but how good their reasons are for doing so.
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True love is a lack of desire to check one’s smartphone in another’s presence.
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