"Ask yourself whether you are happy', observed the……" — Oliver Burkeman
"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 only be glimpsed out of the corner of an eye, not stared at directly."
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11 Quotes by Oliver Burkeman
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...It's more important than ever that we find new ways to cultivate curiosity - because our careers, our happiness, and…
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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…
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Who says you need to wait until you 'feel like' doing something in order to start doing it? The problem,…
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True security lies in the unrestrained embrace of insecurity - in the recognition that we never really stand on solid…
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The effort to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable. And that it is out constant…
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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…
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The routines of almost all famous writers, from Charles Darwin to John Grisham, similarly emphasise specific starting times, or number…
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Uncertainty is where things happen. It is where the opportunities - for success, for happiness, for really living - are…
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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…
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