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Alain De Botton Quotes

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The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to  (Alain De Botton Quotes) It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things  (Alain De Botton Quotes) Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough  (Alain De Botton Quotes) Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a little of who they think we are  (Alain De Botton Quotes) Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test  (Alain De Botton Quotes) Maturity: knowing where you’re crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control  (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) We may not agree with what religions are trying to teach us, but we can admire the institutional way in which they’re doing it  (Alain De Botton Quotes) Religions are so subtle, so complicated, so intelligent in many ways that they’re not fit to be abandoned to the religious alone; they’re for all of us  (Alain De Botton Quotes) Good sex isn’t just fun, it keeps us sane and happy. Having sex with someone makes us feel wanted, alive and potent  (Alain De Botton Quotes) The media insists on taking what someone didn’t mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did  (Alain De Botton Quotes) We are sad at home and blame the weather and the ugliness of the buildings, but on the tropical island we learn that the state of the skies and the appearance of our dwellings can never on their own underwrite our joy nor condemn us to misery  (Alain De Botton Quotes) Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly  (Alain De Botton Quotes) Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories: the story of our quest for sexual love and the story of our quest for love from the world  (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) The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone  (Alain De Botton Quotes) Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet  (Alain De Botton Quotes) Happiness is impossible for longer than 15 minutes. We are the descendants of creatures who, above all else, worried  (Alain De Botton Quotes) People who go on to be writers are those who can forgive themselves the horror of the first draft  (Alain De Botton Quotes) One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is to teach us how to suffer more successfully  (Alain De Botton Quotes) Work is most fulfilling when you’re at the comfortable, exciting edge of not quite knowing what you are doing  (Alain De Botton Quotes) The dream of the news is that it makes us care about other people and situations. But we cannot identify with people to whom we haven’t been introduced. Humans will only respond to art, to people who are skilled in making you care  (Alain De Botton Quotes) The more dignity is widely and freely available in a society, the less people want to be famous  (Alain De Botton Quotes) Every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess  (Alain De Botton Quotes) Without sex, we would be dangerously invulnerable. We might believe we were not ridiculous. We wouldn’t know rejection and humiliation so intimately  (Alain De Botton Quotes) On paper, being good sounds great but a lot depends on the atmosphere of the workplace or community we live in. We tend to become good or bad depending on the cues sent out within a particular space  (Alain De Botton Quotes) I assemble my ideas in pieces on a computer file, then gradually find a place for them on a piece of scaffolding I erect  (Alain De Botton Quotes) I know a lot about writing, but I don’t know much about how other industries work. I’ve tried to use my naivety to my advantage  (Alain De Botton Quotes) I went to church and couldn’t swallow it. The music was nice but I don’t belong there  (Alain De Botton Quotes) Many moments in religion seem attractive to me even though I can’t believe in any of it  (Alain De Botton Quotes)
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