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First, they deny that there's something wrong with their life. Then they intensify their efforts to follow the old failing plan. Then they try to treat themselves with some new thrill: They have an affair, drink more, or start doing drugs. Only when all this fails... #DavidBrooks

First, they deny that there's something wrong with their life. Then they intensify their efforts to follow the old failing plan. Then they try to treat themselves with some new thrill: They have an affair, drink more, or start doing drugs. Only when all this fails... #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 9, 2025

If you are a sensitive sort, [...] you may be quicker than others to feel sickened by violence and ugliness, and you likely have a very strong conscience. #SusanCain

If you are a sensitive sort, [...] you may be quicker than others to feel sickened by violence and ugliness, and you likely have a very strong conscience. #SusanCain — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 9, 2025

What was [Ben Franklin's] secret? Virtue. Not the sort of uptight, pleasure-hating Puritanism that some people now associate with that word, but a broader kind of virtue that goes back to ancient Greece. #JonathanHaidt

What was [Ben Franklin's] secret? Virtue. Not the sort of uptight, pleasure-hating Puritanism that some people now associate with that word, but a broader kind of virtue that goes back to ancient Greece. #JonathanHaidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 9, 2025

We shouldn't do things so we can be happy. We should be happy so we can do things. #VishenLakhiani

We shouldn't do things so we can be happy. We should be happy so we can do things. #VishenLakhiani — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 9, 2025

...we are explanation-seeking animals who tend to think that everything has an identifiable cause and grab the most apparent one as the explanation. Yet there may not be a visible because; to the contrary, frequently there is nothing, no even a spectrum... #NassimNicholasTaleb

...we are explanation-seeking animals who tend to think that everything has an identifiable cause and grab the most apparent one as the explanation. Yet there may not be a visible because; to the contrary, frequently there is nothing, no even a spectrum... #NassimNicholasTaleb — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 9, 2025

It is hope--with regard to our careers, our love lives, our children, our politicians, and our planet--that is primarily to blame for angering and embittering us. The incompatibility between the grandeur of our aspirations and the mean reality of our condition... #AlaindeBotton

It is hope--with regard to our careers, our love lives, our children, our politicians, and our planet--that is primarily to blame for angering and embittering us. The incompatibility between the grandeur of our aspirations and the mean reality of our condition... #AlaindeBotton — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 9, 2025

By another definition, pride is building your happiness around your accomplishments, using your work as the measure of your worth. It is believing that you can arrive at fulfillment on your own, driven by your own individual efforts. Pride can come in bloated form. #DavidBrooks

By another definition, pride is building your happiness around your accomplishments, using your work as the measure of your worth. It is believing that you can arrive at fulfillment on your own, driven by your own individual efforts. Pride can come in bloated form. #DavidBrooks — English Quotes (@english_quotes) Feb 8, 2025