"True security lies in the unrestrained embrace of……" — Oliver Burkeman
"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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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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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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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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I think every year brings unknowns that you have to deal with and handle, confront and embrace.
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False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation…
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