Quotes By Author: Alain de Botton
“The feeling one has no time to get anything done provides the pressure that guarantees one does get some things done.”
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“It is worth pointing out that feeling things (which usually means feeling them painfully) is at some level linked to the acquisition of knowledge.”
“If one felt successful, there’d be so little incentive to be successful.”
“The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.”
“The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word “luxury.”
“The media insists on taking what someone didn’t mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.”
“One’s doing well if age improves even slightly one’s capacity to hold on to that vital truism: “This too shall pass.”
“The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are far from being all we might be.”
“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.”
“One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.”
“There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.”