Not everyone is worth listening to.
ALAIN DE BOTTONDiffer though we might with Christianity’s view of what precisely our souls need, it is hard to discredit the provocative underlying thesis.
More Alain de Botton Quotes
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It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad.
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True love is a lack of desire to check one’s smartphone in another’s presence.
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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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Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.
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Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.
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Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.
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As an atheist, I think there are lots of things religions get up to which are of value to non-believers – and one of those things is trying to be a bit better than we normally manage to be.
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Most good thinking has its origin in fear.
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Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a little of who they think we are.
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Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet.
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There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.
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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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Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene can decline with every click of the shutter.
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Differ though we might with Christianity’s view of what precisely our souls need, it is hard to discredit the provocative underlying thesis.
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Our homes do not have to offer us permanent occupancy or store our clothes to merit the name. To speak of home in relation to a building is simply to recognise its harmony with our own prized internal song. Home can be an airport or a library, a garden or a motorway diner.
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