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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.

Alain de Botton

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There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting.
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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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Book Help Hope Order Other People Reckless
The longing for a destiny is no nowhere stronger than in our romantic life. All too often forced to share our bed with those who cannot fathom our soul, can we not be forgiven if we believe ourselves fated to stumble one day upon the man or woman of our dreams.
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There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.
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A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.
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The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.
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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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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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As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.
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Adult Character Develop Parent Rescue Trait
Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.
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Have Perspective Play Stem Unhappiness
Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.
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Most anger stems from feelings of weakness, sadness and fear: hard to remember when one is at the receiving end of its defiant roar.
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It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however calming, was also a reminder of infidelity to what I had at one time held so dear.
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The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones.
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The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.
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Because the rhythm of conversation makes no allowance for dead periods, because the presence of others calls for continuous responses, we are left to regret the inanity of what we say, and the missed opportunity of what we do not.
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