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We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.

Alain de Botton

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If one felt successful, there’d be so little incentive to be successful.
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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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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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A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.
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In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.
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One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.
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As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.
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Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.
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The good parent: someone who doesn’t mind, for a time, being hated by their children.
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Must being in love always mean being in pain?
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Always Being Love Must Pain
It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad.
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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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We keep a special place in our hearts for people who refuse to be impressed by us.
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The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy.
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Awaken Certain Company Competitiveness Excite Generously People Sensitivity
The very act of drawing an object, however badly, swiftly takes the drawer from a woolly sense of what the object looks like to a precise awareness of its component parts and particularities.
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Act Draw Drawer Like Look Object Sense Swiftly

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