I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living.
ALAIN DE BOTTONPerhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.
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The media insists on taking what someone didn’t mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.
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The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.
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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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Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.
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Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene can decline with every click of the shutter.
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There are selections so acute that they come to define a place, with the result that we can no longer travel through that landscape without being reminded of what a great artist noticed there.
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A good half of the art of living is resilience.
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Politics is so difficult, it’s generally only people who aren’t quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.
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The only way to be happy is to realise how much depends on how you look at things
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An argument in a couple: 2 people attempting to introduce each other to important truths – by panicked shouting.
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Those who divorce aren’t necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person.
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Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.
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Most anger stems from feelings of weakness, sadness and fear: hard to remember when one is at the receiving end of its defiant roar.
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We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.
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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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