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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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Our jobs make relentless calls on a narrow band of our faculties, reducing our chances of achieving rounded personalities and leaving us to suspect (often in the gathering darkness of a Sunday evening) that much of who we are, or could be, has gone unexplored.
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The mind may be reluctant to think properly when thinking is all it is supposed to do; the task can be as paralysing as having to tell a joke or mimic an accent on demand.
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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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To one’s enemies: “I hate myself more than you ever could.
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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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We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.
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In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer’s words, to turn pain into knowledge.
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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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Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.
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A good half of the art of living is resilience.
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We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.
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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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Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.
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There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting.
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In the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation.
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You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.
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Bash Daffodil Day Have Nice Normal Sunset

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