Happiness Quote by Alain de Botton Download Open image ““Other people's heads are too wretched a place for true happiness to have its seat.”” — Alain de Botton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Happiness Opinions Other people Ourselves Self worth True happiness
“The truly happy people are those who have a source of happiness too deep to be seriously disturbed by ordinary troubles.” — Marion K. Rich Copy Share Image
“Happiness exists only because it's being supported by the misery of others.” — Fuyumi Soryo Copy Share Image
“As terrifying and painful as reality can be, it's also the only place where you can find true happiness.” — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
“all the sorrow and trouble of this world is caused by unhappy people.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Often the depths of human misery can be found amongst legions of happy people.” — Russ Woody Copy Share Image
“The question we must ask for ourselves is: Are we going to be miserable just because other people are?” — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“What was worse, we asked among ourselves, to sit and wait for our own deaths with proper somber faces? Or to choose our own… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“And if happiness were common, it would preserve itself, because appeals to hatred and fear, which now constitute almost the whole of politics would… — Bertrand Russell 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
Balance suggests a perfect equilibrium. There is no such thing. That is a false expectation… There are going to be priorities and dimensions of… — Denise Morrison Copy Share Image
“WE CAN'T ALWAYS CONTROL OUR CIRCUMSTANCES BUT WE CAN CONTROL OUR ATTITUDE. WE MUST BE MORE CONCERNED WITH WHAT WE DO WITH WHAT HAPPENS… — MARVIN J. ASHTON Copy Share Image
I can skate beautifully. While performing on ice I always try to please the audience and to win as well. Being artistic is very… — Evgeni Plushenko Copy Share Image
Sometimes we wish for the feel but we never understand that we have to give a lot to get the feel ! — Robert Reynolds Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“It was beautiful. He thought he had never seen anything so beautiful in all his life; that, having seen it, he could die content,… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image