Rather than employing it as a supplement to active, conscious seeing, they used the medium as a substitute, paying less attention to the world than they had done previously, taking it on faith that photography automatically assured them possession of it.
ALAIN DE BOTTONWork is most fulfilling when you’re at the comfortable, exciting edge of not quite knowing what you are doing.
More Alain de Botton Quotes
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The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life.
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Social media has lots of benefits, but compared to Christianity, it tends to group people by interests. Religion puts you with people who have nothing in common except that you’re human.
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The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.
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Don’t despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don’t – surrender to events with hope.
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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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The longing for a destiny is no nowhere stronger than in our romantic life. All too often forced to share our bed with those who cannot fathom our soul, can we not be forgiven if we believe ourselves fated to stumble one day upon the man or woman of our dreams.
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Dreams reveal we never quite get ‘over’ anything: it’s all still in there somewhere.
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The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.
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A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up the necessary receptivity and when new information is therefore as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain.
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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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Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.
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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.
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As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.
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Must being in love always mean being in pain?
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People who readily accept the need for a gym will resist that their personalities might need some work too.
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