The most attractive are not those who allow us to kiss them at once [we soon feel ungrateful] or those who never allow us to kiss them [we soon forget them], but those who coyly lead us between the two extremes.
Alain de BottonWe read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.
Alain de BottonTags: self strangeness newspapers weirdness
Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness?
Alain de BottonTags: life morality world contentment madness
A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.
Alain de BottonTags: life work employment jobs work-life-balance good-jobs
One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.
Alain de BottonTags: disappointment activity
The assumption is that life doesn't need to be navigated with lessons. You can just do it intuitively. After all, you only need to achieve autonomy from your parents, find a moderately satisfying job, form a relationship, perhaps raise some children, watch the onset of mortality in your parents' generation and eventually in your own, until one day a fatal illness starts gnawing at your innards and you calmly go to the grave, shut the coffin and are done with the self-evident business of life.
Alain de BottonTags: life complexity intuition lessons
Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.
Alain de BottonTags: experience judgement unconscious intuitition
One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass.
Alain de BottonTags: life truth aging resilience
Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards.
Alain de BottonTags: cynicism idealism standards
A good half of the art of living is resilience.
Alain de BottonTags: life living resilience
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