The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.
ALAIN DE BOTTONWe 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.
More Alain de Botton Quotes
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True love is a lack of desire to check one’s smartphone in another’s presence.
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There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.
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Every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.
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Mental health: having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle.
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The good parent: someone who doesn’t mind, for a time, being hated by their children.
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I am in general a very pessimistic person with an optimistic, day to day take on things. The bare facts of life are utterly terrifying. And yet, one can laugh. Indeed, one has to laugh precisely because of the darkness: the nervous laughter of the trenches.
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There are selections so acute that they come to define a place, with the result that we can no longer travel through that landscape without being reminded of what a great artist noticed there.
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The flawless object throws into perspective the mediocrity that surrounds it. We are reminded of the way we would wish things always to be and of how incomplete our lives remain.
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Curiosity takes ignorance seriously – and is confident enough to admit when it’s in the dark. It is aware of not knowing. And then it sets out to do something about it.
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The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.
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The activities of drawing, eating and drinking, all involve assimilations by the self of desirable elements from the world, a transfer of goodness from without to within.
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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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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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The 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.
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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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