Quote by Alain de Botton Download Open image ““(disliking people rarely being a sufficient reason for not wanting them to like us).”” — Alain de Botton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Often we like or dislike people not for who they are, but for the circumstances under which we first meet them.” — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
“You're always saying people don't like you but people can't like something that's not there.” — Cath Crowley Copy Share Image
“There are few things more discomfiting than a spontaneous outburst of genuine decency from someone you’re determined to dislike for no good reason.” — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
“Usually we hate things or people with which we have some emotional involvement.” — Harriette Arnow Copy Share Image
“Not everyone is going to like us or understand us. And that is okay. It may have nothing to do with us personally; but… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
“People are not mean to us because they don’t like us, but because they don’t like themselves.” — Jodi Aman Copy Share Image
“People don't like to be kept away from what they want. Especially when it appears within their reach. It makes one doubly angry.” — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“I've found we hate most in others what we can't stand about ourselves.” — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
“If you are always nice to people, you won't give them reason to dislike you.” — L.F. Young Copy Share Image
“There are some people that will never like you, that is fine because you do not have to like them either” — Audrey Kanyera Copy Share Image
“Remember, not everyone will like us (for various reasons), even if you did nothing wrong. If we expect everyone to like us and conform… — Camie L. Vincent 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
