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Alain De Botton Quotes

The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other’s smartphone Picture Quote #1

We should keep a careful diary of our moments of envy: they are our covert guides to what we should try to do next Picture Quote #1

Unnatural to expect that learning to be happy should be any easier than, say, learning to play the violin or require any less practice Picture Quote #1

The degree of sympathy we feel regarding another’s fiasco is directly proportional to how easy or difficult it is for us to imagine ourselves, under like circumstances, making a similar mistake Picture Quote #1

We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them Picture Quote #1

It’s perhaps easier now than ever before to make a good living; it’s perhaps harder than ever before to stay calm, to be free of career anxiety Picture Quote #1

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People who readily accept the need for a gym will resist that their personalities might need some work too Picture Quote #1

The good parent: someone who doesn’t mind, for a time, being hated by their children Picture Quote #1

Our sense of what is valuable will hence be radically distorted if we must perpetually condemn as tedious everything we lack, simply because we lack it Picture Quote #1

There is real danger of a disconnect between what’s on your business card and who you are deep inside, and it’s not a disconnect that the world is ready to be patient with Picture Quote #1

As victims of hurt, we frequently don’t bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day Picture Quote #1

So many complaints boil down to the belly ache of the fragile, mortal, ignored ego in a vast and indifferent universe Picture Quote #1

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One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone Picture Quote #1

There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it Picture Quote #1

I think people want to get married to end their emotional uncertainty. In a way, they want to end powerful feelings, or certainly the negative ones Picture Quote #1

The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can’t accept that Picture Quote #1

The longing for a destiny is no nowhere stronger than in our romantic life. All too often forced to share our bed with those who cannot fathom our soul, can we not be forgiven if we believe ourselves fated to stumble one day upon the man or woman of our dreams Picture Quote #1

We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to the wider world to settle the question of our significance.. we seem beholden to affections of others to endure ourselves Picture Quote #1

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Being incomprehensible offers unparalleled protection against having nothing to say... but writing with simplicity requires courage, for there is a danger that one will be overlooked, dismissed as simpleminded by those with a tenacious belief that the impassable prose is a hallmark of intelligence Picture Quote #1

Perhaps because the origins of a certain kind of love lie in an impulse to escape ourselves and out weaknesses by an alliance with the beautiful and noble. But if the loved ones love us back, we are forced to return to ourselves, and are hence reminded of the things that had driven us into love in the first place. Perhaps it was not love we wanted after all, perhaps it was simply someone in whom to believe, but how can we continue to believe the the beloved now that they believe in us? Picture Quote #1

One of our major flaws, and causes of unhappiness, is that we find it hard to take note of appreciate and be grateful for what is always around us. We suffer because we lose sight of the value of what is before us and yearn, often unfairly, for the imagined attraction elsewhere Picture Quote #1

Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved Picture Quote #1

Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough Picture Quote #1

There’s a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough Picture Quote #1

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Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains Picture Quote #1

It is not necessarily at home that we best encounter our true selves. The furniture insists that we cannot change because it does not; the domestic setting keeps us tethered to the person we are in ordinary life, who may not be who we essentially are Picture Quote #1

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The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other’s smartphone (Alain De Botton Quotes) We should keep a careful diary of our moments of envy: they are our covert guides to what we should try to do next (Alain De Botton Quotes) Unnatural to expect that learning to be happy should be any easier than, say, learning to play the violin or require any less practice (Alain De Botton Quotes) The degree of sympathy we feel regarding another’s fiasco is directly proportional to how easy or difficult it is for us to imagine ourselves, under like circumstances, making a similar mistake (Alain De Botton Quotes) We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them (Alain De Botton Quotes) It’s perhaps easier now than ever before to make a good living; it’s perhaps harder than ever before to stay calm, to be free of career anxiety (Alain De Botton Quotes) People who readily accept the need for a gym will resist that their personalities might need some work too (Alain De Botton Quotes) The good parent: someone who doesn’t mind, for a time, being hated by their children (Alain De Botton Quotes) Our sense of what is valuable will hence be radically distorted if we must perpetually condemn as tedious everything we lack, simply because we lack it (Alain De Botton Quotes) There is real danger of a disconnect between what’s on your business card and who you are deep inside, and it’s not a disconnect that the world is ready to be patient with (Alain De Botton Quotes) As victims of hurt, we frequently don’t bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day (Alain De Botton Quotes) So many complaints boil down to the belly ache of the fragile, mortal, ignored ego in a vast and indifferent universe (Alain De Botton Quotes) One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone (Alain De Botton Quotes) There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it (Alain De Botton Quotes) I think people want to get married to end their emotional uncertainty. In a way, they want to end powerful feelings, or certainly the negative ones (Alain De Botton Quotes) The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can’t accept that (Alain De Botton Quotes) The longing for a destiny is no nowhere stronger than in our romantic life. All too often forced to share our bed with those who cannot fathom our soul, can we not be forgiven if we believe ourselves fated to stumble one day upon the man or woman of our dreams (Alain De Botton Quotes) We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to the wider world to settle the question of our significance.. we seem beholden to affections of others to endure ourselves (Alain De Botton Quotes) Being incomprehensible offers unparalleled protection against having nothing to say... but writing with simplicity requires courage, for there is a danger that one will be overlooked, dismissed as simpleminded by those with a tenacious belief that the impassable prose is a hallmark of intelligence (Alain De Botton Quotes) Perhaps because the origins of a certain kind of love lie in an impulse to escape ourselves and out weaknesses by an alliance with the beautiful and noble. But if the loved ones love us back, we are forced to return to ourselves, and are hence reminded of the things that had driven us into love in the first place. Perhaps it was not love we wanted after all, perhaps it was simply someone in whom to believe, but how can we continue to believe the the beloved now that they believe in us? (Alain De Botton Quotes) One of our major flaws, and causes of unhappiness, is that we find it hard to take note of appreciate and be grateful for what is always around us. We suffer because we lose sight of the value of what is before us and yearn, often unfairly, for the imagined attraction elsewhere (Alain De Botton Quotes) Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved (Alain De Botton Quotes) Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough (Alain De Botton Quotes) There’s a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough (Alain De Botton Quotes) Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains (Alain De Botton Quotes) It is not necessarily at home that we best encounter our true selves. The furniture insists that we cannot change because it does not; the domestic setting keeps us tethered to the person we are in ordinary life, who may not be who we essentially are (Alain De Botton Quotes)

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