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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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Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.
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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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A good half of the art of living is resilience.
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Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.
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Wealth 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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How do the stems connect to the roots?’ ‘Where is the mist coming from?’ ‘Why does one tree seem darker than another?’ These questions are implicitly asked and answered in the process of sketching.
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Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves.
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Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.
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What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think?
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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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Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.
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Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.
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Social media has lots of benefits, but compared to Christianity, it tends to group people by interests. Religion puts you with people who have nothing in common except that you’re human.
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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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