Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves.
ALAIN DE BOTTONWealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we yearn for something we cannot afford, we grow poorer, whatever our resources. And every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.
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We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.
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Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.
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A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.
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We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.
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It is not just nature that defies us. Human life is as overwhelming… If we spend time in it [the vast spaces of nature], they may help us to accept more graciously the great, unfathomable events that molest our lives and will inevitably return us to dust.
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I passionately believe that’s it’s not just what you say that counts, it’s also how you say it – that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.
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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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It wasn’t only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.
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Our minds are susceptible to the influence of external voices telling us what we require to be satisfied, voices that may drown out the faint sounds emitted by our souls and distract us from the careful, arduous task of accurately naming our priorities.
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There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.
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The problem isn’t so much finding good ideas (there is no shortage) as embedding the ones we have into everyday practice.
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Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories: the story of our quest for sexual love and the story of our quest for love from the world.
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Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.
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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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An argument in a couple: 2 people attempting to introduce each other to important truths – by panicked shouting.
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