"The effort to try to feel happy is……" — Oliver Burkeman
"The effort to try to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable,"
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11 Quotes by Oliver Burkeman
Oliver Burkeman has 11 quotes on this site.
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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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Ask yourself whether you are happy', observed the philosopher John Stuart Mill, 'and you cease to be so.' At best,…
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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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It is illuminating to note, here, how the daily rituals and working routines of prolific authors and artists - people…
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More Effort Quotes
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Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause…
— Mahmoud Abbas
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We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure…
— Julian Assange
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Well, there's a question as to what sort of information is important in the world, what sort of information can…
— Julian Assange
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Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to…
— Chinua Achebe
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The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in…
— Charles Babbage
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I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose…
— Peter Ackroyd
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A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions.…
— Liberty Hyde Bailey
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Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work…
— James A. Baldwin
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to…
— James A. Baldwin
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Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful…
— Johnny Ball
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The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
— Roger Bannister
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