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The School of Life: An Emotional Education: An Emotional Education
- Those who wounded us were not superior, impressive beings who knew our special weaknesses and justly targeted them. They were themselves highly frantic, damaged creatures trying their best to cope with the litany of private sorrows to which every life condemns us.
from The School of Life: An Emotional Education: An Emotional Education by Alain de Botton
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- It’s deeply poignant that we should expend so much effort on trying to look strong before the world when, all the while, it’s really only ever the revelation of the somewhat embarrassing, sad, melancholy, and anxious bits of us that renders us endearing to others and transforms strangers into friends.
from The School of Life: An Emotional Education: An Emotional Education by Alain de Botton
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- People are bad, always, because they are in difficulty. They slander, gossip, denigrate, and growl because they are not in a good place. Though they may seem strong, though their attacks can place them in an apparently dominant role, their ill intentions are all the proof we require to know as a certainty that they are not well. Contented people ha... See more
from The School of Life: An Emotional Education: An Emotional Education by Alain de Botton
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- Can we patiently and reasonably put our disappointments into words that, more or less, enable others to see our point? Or do we internalize pain, act it out symbolically or discharge it with counterproductive rage? When other people upset us, do we feel we have the right to communicate or must we slam doors and fall silent? When the desired respons... See more
from The School of Life: An Emotional Education: An Emotional Education by Alain de Botton
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- Anxiety is simply insight that we haven’t yet found a productive use for, that hasn’t yet made its way into art or philosophy.
from The School of Life: An Emotional Education: An Emotional Education by Alain de Botton
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- Anxiety is not a sign of sickness, a weakness of the mind, or an error for which we should always seek a medical solution. It is mostly a hugely reasonable and sensitive response to the genuine strangeness, terror, uncertainty, and riskiness of existence
from The School of Life: An Emotional Education: An Emotional Education by Alain de Botton
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