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Mental health: having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle.

Alain de Botton

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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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Socrates, on being insulted in the marketplace, asked by a passerby, “Don’t you worry about being called names?” retorted, “Why? Do you think I should resent it if an ass had kicked me?
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Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.
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We should read other people’s books in order to learn what we feel; it is our own thoughts we should be developing, even if it is another writer’s thought that help us to do so.
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Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style.
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Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value.
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The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones.
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In the works of Lucretius, we find two reasons why we shouldn’t worry about death. If you have had a successful life, Lucretius tell us, there’s no reason to mind its end. And, if you haven’t had a good time, “Why do you seek to add more years, which would also pass but ill?”
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Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.
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Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.
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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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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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It’s hard loving those who don’t much like themselves: “If you’re so great, why would you think I’m so great.
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Great Hate Live Long Themselves
True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.
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People who readily accept the need for a gym will resist that their personalities might need some work too.
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Memory is… similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.
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