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Every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.

Alain de Botton

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It is not just nature that defies us. Human life is as overwhelming… If we spend time in it [the vast spaces of nature], they may help us to accept more graciously the great, unfathomable events that molest our lives and will inevitably return us to dust.
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Defies Human Life Nature Overwhelms Space Spend Time
A good half of the art of living is resilience.
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Good Half Live Resilience
Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.
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Abbreviation Account Artistic Force Involve Reality Serve
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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Benefit Community Compare Interest Media Religious Social
We often lose our tempers not with those who are actually to blame; just with those who love us enough to forgive us our foul moods.
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Actual Blame Enough Foul Lose Often Temper Those
Happiness is impossible for longer than 15 minutes. We are the descendants of creatures who, above all else, worried.
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Above Creature Descendant Happiness Impossible Longer Minute Worry
Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.
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Art Hold Inner Promise Wholeness
Philosophy had supplied Socrates with convictions in which he had been able to have rational, as opposed to hysterical, confidence when faced with disapproval.
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Conviction Disapproval Face Oppose Philosophy Rational Supply
Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it.
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Book Completely Declare Done Finish Car Remain Start
Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves.
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Cage Career Chosen Entirely Most Old Selve Still
The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life.
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Destiny Life Long Romantic Stronger
It seems that most of us could benefit from a brush with a near-fatal disaster to help us recognise the important things that we are too defeated or embittered to recognise from day to day.
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Benefit Brush Disaster Fatal Help Important Recognise Seem Thing
Most of what makes a book ‘good’ is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.
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Book Make Moment Most Read Right
Man seems merely dust postponed: the sublime as an encounter – pleasurable, intoxicating, even – with human weakness in the face of strength, age and size of the universe.
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Encounter Human Intoxicate Man Merely Pleasurable Postpone Seem Sublime Weakness
There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.
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Balance Everything Fight Life Such Thing Unbalance Work
We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.
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Angry Cease Hopeful Once

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