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How generous was it to offer gifts to people one knew would never accept them?

Alain de Botton

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We don’t really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped … We suffer, therefore we think.
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We are like an exquisite high-speed aircraft which for lack of a tiny part is left stranded beside the runway, rendered slower than a tractor or bicycle.
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Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.
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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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Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone – and finding that that’s ok with them.
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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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Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.
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There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.
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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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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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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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The flawless object throws into perspective the mediocrity that surrounds it. We are reminded of the way we would wish things always to be and of how incomplete our lives remain.
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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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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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Must being in love always mean being in pain?
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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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