Mental health: having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle.
ALAIN DE BOTTONOne of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.
More Alain de Botton Quotes
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When you look at the Moon, you think, ‘I’m really small. What are my problems?’ It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the Moon a bit more often.
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Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value.
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A good half of the art of living is resilience.
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Serious journalists often imagine society is adrift because people don’t know certain things.
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Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.
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Because the rhythm of conversation makes no allowance for dead periods, because the presence of others calls for continuous responses, we are left to regret the inanity of what we say, and the missed opportunity of what we do not.
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We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.
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Memory is… similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.
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One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.
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We are like an exquisite high-speed aircraft which for lack of a tiny part is left stranded beside the runway, rendered slower than a tractor or bicycle.
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To 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.
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One’s doing well if age improves even slightly one’s capacity to hold on to that vital truism: “This too shall pass.
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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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I went to church and couldn’t swallow it. The music was nice but I don’t belong there.
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A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.
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