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- The only people we can think of as normal are those we don't yet know very well. Normal
- The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts. Despair
- Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice. Bad
- The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person. Action
- A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide. Animal
- There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life. Balance
- Her lie was symptomatic of a certain pride she took in mocking the romantic, in being unsentimental, matter-of-fact, stoic; yet at heart she was the… Attached
- We keep a special place in our hearts for people who refuse to be impressed by us. Heart
- A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in one’s life. There… Beauty
- The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined discourse. Familiarity creates a new… Carries
- We are sensitized by the books we read. And the more books we read, and the deeper their lessons sink into us, the more pairs… Book
- Perhaps because the origins of a certain kind of love lie in an impulse to escape ourselves and out weaknesses by an alliance with the… All
- To be loved by someone is to realize how much they share the same needs that lie at the heart of our own attraction to… Albert
- Dreams reveal we never quite get 'over' anything: it's all still in there somewhere. All
- The inability to live in the present lies in the fear of leaving the sheltered position of anticipation or memory, and so of admitting that… Admitting
- We wanted to test each other's capacity for survival: only if we had tried in vain to destroy one another would we know we were… Capacity
- A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up the necessary receptivity… Beads
- The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to. Dependent
- Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money. Civic
- It is not necessarily at home that we best encounter our true selves. The furniture insists that we cannot change because it does not; the… Best
- Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom. Anxiety
- In the oasis complex, the thirsty man images he sees water, palm trees, and shade not because he has evidence for the belief, but because… Age
- Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same. Disease
- We don't really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped… Anything Properly
- The lesson? To respond to the unexpected and hurtful behavior of others with something more than a wipe of the glasses, to see it as… Behavior
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