People who readily accept the need for a gym will resist that their personalities might need some work too.
ALAIN DE BOTTONWhat am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think?
More Alain de Botton Quotes
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A successful work will draw out the features capable of exciting a sense of beauty and interest in the spectator.
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One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is to teach us how to suffer more successfully.
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Writing isn’t a career choice. It’s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.
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Newspapers are being read all around. The point is not, of course, to glean new information, but rather to coax the mind out of its sleep-induced introspective temper.
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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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Although I don’t believe in God, Bach’s music shows me what a love of God must feel like.
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What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty.
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Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn’t find anyone to talk to.
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The best cure for one’s bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.
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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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We are not always humiliated by failing; we are humiliated only if we first invest our pride and sense of worth in a given achievement and then do not reach it.
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Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.
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Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others – because it’s a tool to help us live and die with a little bit more wisdom, goodness, and sanity.
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Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own – but that we could never have described on our own.
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I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living.
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