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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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Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn’t find anyone to talk to.
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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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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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A good half of the art of living is resilience.
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Mental health: having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle.
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What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think?
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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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The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other’s smartphone.
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The best cure for one’s bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.
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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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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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The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.
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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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The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can’t accept that.
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When I see someone like Richard Dawkins, I see my father. I grew up with that. I’m basically the child of Richard Dawkins.
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Because it’s bad enough not getting what you want, but it’s even worse to have an idea of what it is you want and find out at the end of the journey that it isn’t, in fact, what you wanted all along.
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