Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.
ALAIN DE BOTTONUnhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.
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One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.
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Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.
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We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.
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Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a little of who they think we are.
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Mental health: having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle.
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The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other’s smartphone.
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Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough.
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Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.
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Unnatural to expect that learning to be happy should be any easier than, say, learning to play the violin or require any less practice.
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People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.
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I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.
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Good sex isn’t just fun, it keeps us sane and happy. Having sex with someone makes us feel wanted, alive and potent.
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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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A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.
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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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