Quote by Alain de Botton Download Open image ““Nothing satisfies the man who is not satisfied with a little.”” — Alain de Botton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“For a man to be great, he must not dwell on small things, though he may enjoy them.” — Joseph Smith Jr Copy Share Image
“Sir, there is nothing too little for so little creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great knowledge… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“He who does not wish for little things does not deserve big things.” — Belgian proverb Copy Share Image
“One does not like to be told that one is naturally the inferior of a little man” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Man always gets less than he demands from life; and so little do they demand, that the less than little they get cannot save… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“Well-being is attained little by little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.” — Zeno of Citium Copy Share Image
“SOMETIMES WHAT WE WANT BUT CANT GET IT, EVEN WE DO NOT TRY TO GET IT. AT LAST WE SATISFIED JUST FAILURE.” — Rupee Copy Share Image
“When all things lasted so short a time and nothing mattered very much, it seemed pitiful that men, attaching an absurd importance to trivial… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“If I can’t be grateful for what I have, however imperfect and flawed, then I can’t be happy.” — Sabrina Lacey 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
