One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.
ALAIN DE BOTTONTaking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene can decline with every click of the shutter.
More Alain de Botton Quotes
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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.
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The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life.
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Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.
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Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we see before us, melancholy at an awareness of how seldom we are sufficiently blessed to encounter anything of its kind.
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There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.
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Yet often, they know but just don’t care. So the task of serious journalism isn’t just to lay out truths. It is to make vital truths compelling to a big audience.
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My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.
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In the oasis complex, the thirsty man images he sees water, palm trees, and shade not because he has evidence for the belief, but because he has a need for it. Desperate needs bring about a hallucination of their solution: thirst hallucinates water.
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The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.
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to design means forcing ourselves to unlearn what we believe we already know, patiently to take apart the mechanisms behind our reflexes and to acknowledge the mystery and stupefying complexity of everyday gestures like switching off a light of turning on a tap
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The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.
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What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think?
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It’s as though either you accept [religious] doctrine and then you can have all the nice stuff, or you reject the doctrine and you’re living in some kind of spiritual wasteland under the guidance of CNN and Walmart.
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Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone – and finding that that’s ok with them.
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Serious journalists often imagine society is adrift because people don’t know certain things.
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