I like working with people. I believe change can only come through collaboration. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Work is most fulfilling when you're at the comfortable, exciting edge of not quite knowing what you are doing. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Emotional life is - alongside work - one of the great challenges of existence and is a theme that I keep returning… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“What makes the prospect of death distinctive in the modern age is the background of permanent technological and sociological revolution against which… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Most business meetings involve one party elaborately suppressing a wish to shout at the other: 'just give us the money'.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Our exertions generally find no enduring physical correlatives. We are diluted in gigantic intangible collective projects, which leave us wondering what we… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“It is according to how we are able to answer the question of what we do (normally the first enquiry we will… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
It's very hard to respect people on holiday - everybody looks so silly at the beach, it makes you hate humanity -… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
One of the most welcome aspects of office work is that you do not need to be fully yourself. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“When does a job feel meaningful? Whenever it allows us to generate delight or reduce suffering in others. Though we are often… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I know a lot about writing, but I don't know much about how other industries work. I've tried to use my naivety… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“...workplace dynamics are no less complicated or unexpectedly intense than family relations, with only the added difficulty that whereas families are at… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
When work is not going well, it's useful to remember that our identities stretch beyond what is on the business card, that… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“After Carol had left, as Symons threw away a pile of used tissues and rearranged the cushions on the couch, he remarked… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“However powerful our technology and complex our corporations, the most remarkable feature of the modern working world may in the end be… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Partially undermining the manufacturer's ability to assert that its work constituted a meaningful contribution to mankind was the frivolous way in which… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“The challenge lies in knowing how to bring this sort of day to a close. His mind has been wound to a… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Work is a way of bringing order to chaos, and there's a basic satisfaction in seeing that we are able to make… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The romantic person instinctively sees marriage in terms of emotions, but what a couple actually gets up to together over a lifetime… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“To be mature is, we're told, to move beyond possessiveness. Jealousy is for babies. The mature person knows that no one owns anyone.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“He feared that by leaving her he would ruin her life - so he stayed, and did just that.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“The Anxiety of Sunday afternoon: your unlived lives and infinite possibility pressing upon the constraints of reality.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“We could not be fulfilled if we weren't inauthentic some of the time—inauthentic, that is, in relation to such things as our passing desires… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Insofar as we appreciate order, it is when we perceive it as being accompanied by complexity, when we feel that a variety of elements… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I like the values associated with a medical family - common sense, being practical but also thoughtful. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Anyone who urgently needs us deserves, in the true book of love, to be our friend.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“We can then recognize that we invented religions to serve two central needs which continue to this day and which secular society has not… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Half the ingratitude and complacency in the world down to how slowly and imperceptibly most good and bad things unfold.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
![“After Carol had left, as Symons threw away a pile of used tissues and rearranged the cushions on the couch, he remarked that the most common and unhelpful illusion plaguing those who came to see him [as a career counselor] was the idea that they ought somehow, in the normal course of events, to…” quote by Alain de Botton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/617/alain-de-botton-221_calling_after-carol-had-left-as-symons-threw-awa_2261889.jpg)
