Our capacity for calm ultimately depends on our levels of expectation: if we suppose that most things normally turn out to be slightly disappointing {but that this is OK}; that change occurs slowly {but that life is long}; that most people are neither terribly good nor very wicked {and this includes us}; that humanity has faced crisis after crisis {yet muddled through} – if we are able to keep these entirely obvious but highly fugitive thoughts alive in our minds, then we stand to be less easily seduced into panic.
( Alain de Botton )
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