There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.
ALAIN DE BOTTONThe more closely we analyze what we consider ‘sexy,’ the more clearly we will understand that eroticism is the feeling of excitement we experience at finding another human being who shares our values and our sense of the meaning of existence.
More Alain de Botton Quotes
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It is striking how much more seriously we are likely to be taken after we have been dead a few centuries.
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The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life.
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Socrates, on being insulted in the marketplace, asked by a passerby, “Don’t you worry about being called names?” retorted, “Why? Do you think I should resent it if an ass had kicked me?
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Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people.
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Mental health: having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle.
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Our minds are susceptible to the influence of external voices telling us what we require to be satisfied, voices that may drown out the faint sounds emitted by our souls and distract us from the careful, arduous task of accurately naming our priorities.
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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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You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.
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Those who divorce aren’t necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person.
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Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.
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It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.
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A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.
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A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.
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We envy only those whom we feel ourselves to be like; we envy only members of our reference group. There are few successes more unendurable than those of our close friends.
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At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.
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