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Alain De Botton Quotes
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To be shown love is to feel ourselves the object of concern: our presence is noted, our name is registered, our views are listened to, our failings are treated with indulgence and our needs are ministered to. And under such care, we flourish (Alain De Botton Quotes)
A world where a majority had imbibed the lessons implicit within tragic art would be one in which the consequences of our failures would necessarily cease to weigh upon us so heavily (Alain De Botton Quotes)
Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand (Alain De Botton Quotes)
Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go (Alain De Botton Quotes)
You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days (Alain De Botton Quotes)
If one felt successful, there’d be so little incentive to be successful (Alain De Botton Quotes)
One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me? (Alain De Botton Quotes)
What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery (Alain De Botton Quotes)
Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same (Alain De Botton Quotes)
What kills us isn’t one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can’t turn down for fear of disappointing others (Alain De Botton Quotes)
Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance (Alain De Botton Quotes)
Rather than getting more spoilt with age, as difficulties pile up, epiphanies of gratitude abound (Alain De Botton Quotes)
Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness? (Alain De Botton Quotes)
The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn’t call (Alain De Botton Quotes)
The problem is if you really believe in a society where those who merit to get to the top, get to the top, you’ll also, by implication … believe in a society where those who deserve to get to the bottom also get to the bottom and stay there (Alain De Botton Quotes)
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)
There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting (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)