Quote by Alain de Botton Download Open image ““Not everything which happens to us occurs with reference to something about us.”” — Alain de Botton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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“But like it or not, change happens and, like most things in life, doesn't really happen /to us/ - it just happens.” — David Kessler Copy Share Image
“It is not always the events that touch us personally that affect us the most.” — François Mauriac Copy Share Image
“It is not always events that have touched us personally that affect us the most.” — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“Life is not what happens to us; it is what we perceive has happened to us.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the things that don't seem like much much, become the very ones that define us.” — Bibiana Krall Copy Share Image
“What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.” — Jean-Paul Sartre 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
