hope–with regard careers, love lives, children, politicians, planet– — Alain de Botton, Religion Atheists: A Non-Believer’s Guide Uses Religion

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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 generates the violent disappointments which rack our days and etch themselves in lines of acrimony across our faces.

Alain de Botton, Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion

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