Happiness Quote by Alain de Botton

“Applied to the news , having perspective involves an ability to compare an apparently traumatic event in the present with the experiences of humanity…

— Alain de Botton

“He [Wordsworth] invited his readers to abandon their usual perspective and to consider for a time how the world might look through other eyes,…

— Alain de Botton

Growing up in the suburbs, the worst part was definitely being black. The best part was maybe also being black. Just having that perspective,…

— Ian Simpson

We have grown comfortable not having our perspective challenged. It's unhealthy.

— Jason Whitlock

For me, the battle is finding the balance between wanting to spend time with my boys and then having enough perspective to still be…

— Rob Lowe

A lot of people go off and have fun adventures, or hard adventures, and their impulse is to write about them right away. What…

— Cheryl Strayed

I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there.

— Andre Agassi

True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.

— Alain de Botton

Most anger stems from feelings of weakness, sadness and fear: hard to remember when one is at the receiving end of its defiant roar.

— Alain de Botton

One of our major flaws, and causes of unhappiness, is that we find it hard to take note of appreciate and be grateful for…

— Alain de Botton

Until we have met the monsters in ourselves, we keep trying to slay them in the outer world. And we find that we cannot.…

— Marianne Williamson

There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had…

— Toni Morrison