Advice Quote by Alain de Botton Download Open image ““Just be yourself' is about the worst advice you can give some people.”” — Alain de Botton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Advice Being yourself Life
Live your life so that if someone says 'Be yourself' it's good advice. — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
Anyone who told you to be yourself couldn't have given you any worse advice. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Here is a powerful thought for today and everyday... Be Yourself is about the worst advice you can give SOME people. For this could… — Elle Copy Share Image
“The general advice is always be yourself, be yourself, which only makes sense if you haven't got an attitude problem.” — Helen Oyeyemi 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 been able to solve with any particular skill: first, the need to live together in communities in harmony, despite our deeply rooted selfish and violent impulses. And second, the need to cope with terrifying degrees of… — Alain de Botton Copy Share
“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 ask for tips, for advice. What I have also learnt is that I need to do things that are good for me. In… — Matthijs de Ligt Copy Share Image
Don't get too attached to someone you know you can't be together with. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
The worst advice? 'Don't listen to the critics.' I think that you really ought to listen to the critics, because sometimes they're telling you… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When I was in my twenties and just so sexually prolific, the first time I went to Machu Picchu, this guy, a spiritual teacher,… — Woody Harrelson Copy Share Image
The best way to succeed in this world is to act on the advice you give to others. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Time is priceless. You have it, but you don't own it. You spend it, but you can't keep it. And once it's gone, there's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You don't need to take a persons advice to make him feel good, just ask him for it. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
Some of the things that we hold onto the most, are the things that we need to let go of. — Ryaj Ablando Catayas Copy Share Image
“If your clothes are enough to drive would-be friends away, they're not the kind of friends you want." Typical mother advice. Sweet, honest, and… — Aprilynne Pike Copy Share Image
I always advise people not to act upon the advice that I give them. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
[A]s you partake of the world's bill of fare, that's darned good advice to follow. Do a lot of spitting out the hot air.… — Dr. Seuss Copy Share Image