Oliver Burkeman Quotes
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...It's more important than ever that we find new ways to cultivate curiosity - because our careers, our happiness, and our children's flourishing all depend…
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Confronting the worst-case scenario saps it of much of its anxiety-inducing power. Happiness reached via positive thinking can be fleeting and brittle, negative visualization generates…
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Who says you need to wait until you 'feel like' doing something in order to start doing it? The problem, from this perspective, isn't that…
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True security lies in the unrestrained embrace of insecurity - in the recognition that we never really stand on solid ground, and never can.
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The effort to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable. And that it is out constant efforts to eliminate the negative…
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Ask yourself whether you are happy', observed the philosopher John Stuart Mill, 'and you cease to be so.' At best, it would appear, happiness can…
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Reassurance can actually exacerbate anxiety: when you reassure your friend that the worst-case scenario he fears probably won't occur, you inadvertently reinforce his belief that…
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The routines of almost all famous writers, from Charles Darwin to John Grisham, similarly emphasise specific starting times, or number of hours worked, or words…
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Uncertainty is where things happen. It is where the opportunities - for success, for happiness, for really living - are waiting.
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The effort to try to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable,
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It is illuminating to note, here, how the daily rituals and working routines of prolific authors and artists - people who really do get a…
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