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Curiosity takes ignorance seriously – and is confident enough to admit when it’s in the dark. It is aware of not knowing. And then it sets out to do something about it.

Alain de Botton

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What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty.
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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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Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.
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The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.
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I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living.
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What should worry us is not the number of people that oppose us, but how good their reasons are for doing so.
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When you look at the Moon, you think, ‘I’m really small. What are my problems?’ It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the Moon a bit more often.
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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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One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.
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Mental health: having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle.
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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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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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We are not always humiliated by failing; we are humiliated only if we first invest our pride and sense of worth in a given achievement and then do not reach it.
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If our lives are dominated by a search for happiness, then perhaps few activities reveal as much about the dynamics of this quest – in all its ardour and paradoxes – than our travels.
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There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.
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What kills us isn’t one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can’t turn down for fear of disappointing others.
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