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Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go.

Alain de Botton

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Memory is… similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.
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I went to church and couldn’t swallow it. The music was nice but I don’t belong there.
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Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves.
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We need a refuge to shore up our states of mind, because so much of the world is opposed to our allegiances. We need our rooms to align us to desirable versions of ourselves and to keep alive the important, evanescent sides of us.
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He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down, to hear that happiness was never part of the plan.
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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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After 40 (old age for most of man’s history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.
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Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.
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You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you’re annoyed with them.
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The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones.
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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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Dependent Derive Destination Journey Mindset More Pleasure
The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word “luxury.
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Philosophy had supplied Socrates with convictions in which he had been able to have rational, as opposed to hysterical, confidence when faced with disapproval.
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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.
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As victims of hurt, we frequently don’t bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day.
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The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.
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