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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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Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.
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The largest part of what we call ‘personality’ is determined by how we’ve opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness”.
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Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough.
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Must being in love always mean being in pain?
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Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.
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The very act of drawing an object, however badly, swiftly takes the drawer from a woolly sense of what the object looks like to a precise awareness of its component parts and particularities.
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A ‘good job’ can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.
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The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word “luxury.
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If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art are perhaps a little to blame, for in them we find at work the same process of simplification or selection as in the imagination.
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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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We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.
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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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We are like an exquisite high-speed aircraft which for lack of a tiny part is left stranded beside the runway, rendered slower than a tractor or bicycle.
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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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