Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves.
ALAIN DE BOTTONOne’s doing well if age improves even slightly one’s capacity to hold on to that vital truism: “This too shall pass.
More Alain de Botton Quotes
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Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one’s own ambitions.
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The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.
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The need for love hallucinates a prince or princess. The oasis complex is never a complete delusion: the man in the desert does see something on the horizon. It is just that the palms have withered, the well is dry, and the place is infected with locusts.
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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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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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There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting.
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Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.
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We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.
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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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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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As victims of hurt, we frequently don’t bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day.
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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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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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Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.
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Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.
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