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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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Which seems no less relevant in the secular realm than in the religious one-that we have within us a precious, childlike, vulnerable core which we should nourish and nurture on its turbulent journey through life.
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The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren’t there. The answers are there in the morning.
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Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.
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Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude – not a punishment for making money.
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Civic Duty Frame Glorious Gratitude Make Money Pay Punishment Tax Worthy
We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers… Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness.
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Newspapers are being read all around. The point is not, of course, to glean new information, but rather to coax the mind out of its sleep-induced introspective temper.
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All Round Coax Information Mind Newspaper Out Post Rather Read
Dreams reveal we never quite get ‘over’ anything: it’s all still in there somewhere.
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Anything Dream never Quite Reveal Somewhere
The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can’t accept that.
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What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.
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Anyone Fascinate Marriage Married
There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting.
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Mental health: having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle.
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Don’t despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don’t – surrender to events with hope.
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What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think?
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Suppose Think
Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.
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Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of a few blunt, large questions.
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Curiosity Distance Extend Huge Outward Picture Question Small Some Time
Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value.
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Began Consider Everything Interest Object Potential Release Value

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