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I came to understand that happiness and vulnerability are often the same thing.

The greatest benefit of negative capability - the true power of negative thinking - is that it lets the mystery back in.

There's never any closure in an awe-inspired life, only constant acceptance of the mysteries of life.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way that I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked.

What actually causes suffering are the beliefs you hold about those things.

in recent years, some psychologists have reached the conclusion that pessimism may often be as healthy and productive as optimism. At

It is alarming to consider how many major life decisions we take primarily in order to minimise present-moment emotional discomfort.

Uncertainty is where things happen. It is where the opportunities - for success, for happiness, for really living - are waiting.

True security lies in the unrestrained embrace of insecurity - in the recognition that we never really stand on solid ground, and never can.

(A writer's working space, Montaigne also believed, ought to have a good view of the cemetery; it tended to sharpen one's thinking.)

Rate your individual acts as good or bad, if you like. Seek to perform as many good ones, and as few bad ones, as possible.

Bereaved people who make the most effort to avoid feeling grief, research suggests, take the longest to recover from their loss.

[Life] is a dance, and when you are dancing, you are not intent on getting somewhere. The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance.

Is it other people that bother me? Or the judgment I make about other people?.

The effort to try to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable,