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Alain de Botton Quote: “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 Quote: “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. Do you love me stripped of everything that might be lost, for only the things I will have for ever?”
Alain de Botton Quote: “At the heart of the pain created by sexual rejection is our habit of interpreting it as a moral judgement, when it might more accurately be categorized as a mere accident.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “Insecurity is a sign of well-being. It means we haven’t allowed ourselves to take other people for granted, that we remain realistic enough to see that things could genuinely turn out badly and that we are invested enough to care. It.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “Love stories begin not when we fear someone may be unwilling to see us again, but when they decide they would have no objection to seeing us all the time; not when they have every opportunity to run away, but when they have exchanged solemn vows promising to hold us, and be held captive by us, for life. Our.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “Most anger stems from feelings of weakness, sadness and fear: hard to remember when one is at the receiving end of its defiant roar.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “Does beauty give birth to love? Or does love give birth to beauty? Did I love Chloe because she was beautiful? Or was she beautiful because I loved her?”
Alain de Botton Quote: “A marriage doesn’t begin with a proposal, or even an initial meeting. It begins far earlier, when the idea of love is born, and more specifically the dream of a soulmate. Rabih.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “Unrequited love may be painful, but it is safely painful, because it does not involve inflicting damage on anyone but oneself, a private pain that is as bitter-sweet as it is self-induced. But as soon as love is reciprocated, one must be prepared to give up the passivity of simply being hurt to take on the responsibility of perpetrating hurt oneself.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “Technology may make it easier to reach beauty, but it does not simplify the process of possessing or appreciating it.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “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 Quote: “One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “Although I don’t believe in God, Bach’s music shows me what a love of God must feel like.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “Good listeners are no less rare or important than good communicators. Here, too, an unusual degree of confidence is the key – a capacity not to be thrown off course by, or buckle under the weight of, information that may deeply challenge certain settled assumptions. Good listeners are unfussy about the chaos which others may for a time create in their minds; they’ve been there before and know that everything can eventually be set back in its place. The.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains. There is an almost quaint correlation between what is before our eyes and the thoughts we are able to have in our heads: large thoughts at times requiring large views, and new thoughts, new places. Introspective reflections that might otherwise be liable to stall are helped along by the flow of the landscape.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “Nature’s kind trick is to make everything happen so slowly that we don’t get as scared as we should.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “The partner truly best suited to us is not the one who miraculously happens to share every taste, but the one who can negotiate differences in taste with intelligence and grace.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “Why, then, if expensive things cannot bring us remarkable joy, are we so powerfully drawn to them?”
Alain de Botton Quote: “How generous was it to offer gifts to people one knew would never accept them?”
Alain de Botton Quote: “The very act of drawing an object, however badly, swiftly takes the drawer from a woolly sense of what the object looks like to a precise awareness of its component parts and particularities.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “We often lose our tempers not with those who are actually to blame; just with those who love us enough to forgive us our foul moods.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “We charm by coincidence rather than design.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “In reading, friendship is suddenly brought back to its original purity. There is no false amiability with books. If we spend the evening with these friends, it is because we genuinely want to.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “Few in this world are ever simply nasty; those who hurt us are themselves in pain. The appropriate response is hence never cynicism nor aggression but, at the rare moments one can manage it, always love.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “Romantic idea of love: he has found the right person; he has opened his heart to her; and he has been accepted. But he is, of course, nowhere yet. He and Kirsten will marry, they will suffer, they will frequently worry about money, they will have a girl first, then a boy, one of them will have an affair, there will be passages of boredom, they’ll sometimes want to murder one another and on a few occasions to kill themselves. This will be the real love story.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “He will conclude that love can endure only when one is unfaithful to its beguiling opening ambitions; and that for his relationships to work he will need to give up on the feelings that got him into them in the first place. He will need to learn that love is a skill rather than an enthusiasm.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “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 Quote: “He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down, to hear that happiness was never part of the plan.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a little of who they think we are.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “Love means admiration for qualities in the lover that promise to correct our weaknesses and imbalances; love is a search for completion.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “Maturity: knowing where you’re crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “Nothing is erotic that isn’t also, with the wrong person, revolting, which is precisely what makes erotic moments so intense: at the precise juncture where disgust could be at its height, we find only welcome and permission.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “Pronounce a lover ‘perfect’ can only be a sign that we have failed to understand them. We can claim to have begun to know someone only when they have substantially disappointed us.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “We don’t exist unless there is someone who can see us existing, what we say has no meaning until someone can understand, while to be surrounded by friends is constantly to have our identity confirmed; their knowledge and care for us have the power to pull us from our numbness.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “We might define art as anything which pushes our thoughts in important yet neglected directions.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “It seemed an advantage to be travelling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by whom we are with, we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “The Anxiety of Sunday afternoon: your unlived lives and infinite possibility pressing upon the constraints of reality.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “Being alone spares you from constant reminders of how difficult and strange you are. No one is there to hold a mirror up – record your antics and constantly make you accountable for them. If you’re lucky, you will be able to tolerate and even like yourself.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad, and to lonely service stations that we should drive when there is no one for us to hold or love.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “Must being in love always mean being in pain?”
Alain de Botton Quote: “Choosing a spouse and a choosing career: the two great decisions for which society refuses to set up institutional guidance.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “Yet we can perhaps only ever fall in love without knowing quite who we have fallen in love with. The initial convulsion is necessarily founded on ignorance.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “If it is true that love is the pursuit in another of qualities we lack in ourselves, then in our love of someone from another culture, one ambition may be to weld ourselves more closely to values missing from our own culture.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “Though from a position of unrequited love they long to see their love returned, Marxists unconsciously prefer that their dreams remain in the realm of fantasy. Why should others think any better of them than they of themselves? Only so long as the loved one believes the Marxist to be more or less nothing, can the Marxist continue to believe the loved one to be more or less everything.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “We do our sulking lovers the greatest possible favor when we are able to regard their tantrums as we would those of an infant. We are so alive to the idea that it’s patronizing to be thought of as younger than we are; we forget that it is also, at times, the greatest privilege for someone to look beyond our adult self in order to engage with – and forgive – the disappointed, furious, inarticulate child within.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think?”
Alain de Botton Quote: “When you feel sad, you are participating in a venerable experience, to which I, this monument, am dedicated. Your sense of loss and disappointment, of frustrated hopes and grief at your own inadequacy, elevate you to serious company. Do not ignore of throw away your grief.”
Alain de Botton Quote: “Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole...”
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