“ Our fear of messing up should give way to the only real danger there is, that of never trying. ”
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“ Confidence begins with a capacity to forgive oneself for the horrors of the first go. ”
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“ Love is not just admiration for strength, it is also tolerance for weakness and recognition of ambivalence. ”
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“ Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly. ”
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“ Loneliness is a tax we have to pay to atone for a certain complexity of mind. ”
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“ Enduring loneliness is almost invariably better than suffering the compromises of false community. ”
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“ It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. ”
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“ The good life is not one immune to sadness but one in which suffering contributes to our development. ”
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“ Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason. ”
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“ Modern society tends to emphasize buoyancy and cheerfulness but we have to admit that reality is, for the most part, about grief and loss. ”
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“ At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality. ”
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“ When two people part, it is the one who is not in love who makes the tender speeches. ”
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“ The melancholy facts shouldn’t make us desperate, rather more forgiving, kinder, and better able to focus on what really matters, while there is still time. ”
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“ Writing a book is like telling a joke and having to wait 2 years to know whether or not it was funny. ”
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“ The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts. ”
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“ The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be. ”
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“ We should learn to accommodate ourselves to “wrongness”, striving always to adopt a more forgiving, humorous and kindly perspective on its multiple examples in ourselves and in our partners. ”
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“ To forgive is to understand the origins of evil and cruelty. ”
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“ You too are a deeply imperfect and questionable individual. ”
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“ Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice. ”
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“ Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough. ”
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“ Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom. ”
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“ The largest part of what we call ‘personality’ is determined by how we’ve opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness. ”
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“ Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone – and finding that that’s ok with them. ”
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“ One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy. ”
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“ There is no such thing as worklife balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life. ”
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