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At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.

Alain de Botton

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What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think?
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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
The happiness that may emerge from taking a second look is central to Proust’s therapeutic conception. It reveals the extent to which our dissatisfactions may be the result of failing to look properly at our lives rather than the result of anything inherently deficient about them.
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As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.
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What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.
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We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.
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Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.
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It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is.
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…if the beginnings of love and amorous politics are equally rosy, then the ends may be equally bloody.
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The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.
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It is striking how much more seriously we are likely to be taken after we have been dead a few centuries.
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Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.
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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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Mimic Mind Paralyse Properly Recusant Suppose Think
Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own – but that we could never have described on our own.
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As an atheist, I think there are lots of things religions get up to which are of value to non-believers – and one of those things is trying to be a bit better than we normally manage to be.
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Atheist Believer Non Normal One Religion Thing Try Value
There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting.
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