Great man Quote by Alain de Botton Download Open image ““Adulthood involves learning to conclusively bury a great many of our hopes.”” — Alain de Botton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Great man Hope
“Adulthood is accretive by nature, a thing which arrives in ragged stages and uneven overlaps.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Only in adulthood can any intelligent understanding of the meaning of one's existence in this world be gained from one's experiences in it.” — Bruno Bettleheim Copy Share Image
“Children seldom are able to realize that death will come to them personally. One might define adulthood as the age at which a person… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Treasure the beauty of youthful life and the wisdom of adulthood.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“Adulthood is a wonderful thing, and brief. You must be sure to enjoy it while it lasts.” — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Maybe maturity is merely accepting the tally of all the disappearing options of life.” — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
“Only as I approached adulthood did I realize that life is a process of continual becoming.” — Peter Korn Copy Share Image
“Childhood is like that, so full of treasures. I've tried to bring as many of those treasures with me, into adulthood, as possible. Otherwise,… — Sonya Chung Copy Share Image
“As we grow older we are apt to forget that the despair of the young is even more gigantic and immediately overwhelming than their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You are young; you have hopes. One by one they will go, and nothing will be left but the bare fact of life.” — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
“If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no… — George Eliot 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
I think the next 50 years are going to present the human race with challenges that so far exceed the limitations of geopolitical boundaries… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
Football is a team sport. I'm proud of what I achieved in my career, but I also know that I wouldn't have achieved any… — Peter Schmeichel Copy Share Image
My father was a really great man. I'll never forget the last thing he ever said to me. Nor will I ever repeat it. — John S. Hall Copy Share Image
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it. — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
“The effects of the division of labour, in the general business of society, will be more easily understood by considering in what manner it… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power. ... The great man, whether we comprehend him in the most intense… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
A great man isn't the one who can show all his greatness, but great man is the one who can show his Humility upon… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But the mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
It's awfully hard to be the son of a great man and also of a half-crazy woman. — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
“...a great man who is vicious will only be a great doer of evil, and a rich man who is not liberal will be… — Miguel Cervantes Copy Share Image
