A good half of the art of living is resilience.
ALAIN DE BOTTONTo 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.
More Alain de Botton Quotes
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Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.
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…if the beginnings of love and amorous politics are equally rosy, then the ends may be equally bloody.
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One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?
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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.
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The need for love hallucinates a prince or princess. The oasis complex is never a complete delusion: the man in the desert does see something on the horizon. It is just that the palms have withered, the well is dry, and the place is infected with locusts.
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If one felt successful, there’d be so little incentive to be successful.
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As victims of hurt, we frequently don’t bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day.
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Maturity: knowing where you’re crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.
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We don’t really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped … We suffer, therefore we think.
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Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.
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When I see someone like Richard Dawkins, I see my father. I grew up with that. I’m basically the child of Richard Dawkins.
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If our lives are dominated by a search for happiness, then perhaps few activities reveal as much about the dynamics of this quest – in all its ardour and paradoxes – than our travels.
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Good sex isn’t just fun, it keeps us sane and happy. Having sex with someone makes us feel wanted, alive and potent.
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Must being in love always mean being in pain?
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The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.
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