Alain-de-botton Quote by Alain de Botton Download Open image ““We are humiliated by what is powerful and mean, but awed by what is powerful and noble.”” — Alain de Botton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Alain-de-botton Nature Noble Power Powerful Travel
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“We feel good when we hear about how powerful we are because we are pure power.” — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
“We are powerful beyond measure, and we must stand powerfully in the face of injustice and hate. United.” — Scott Stabile Copy Share Image
“Power had its own silent language, one that screamed. It combined tiny, effortless shows of arrogance with bigger, louder displays—of wealth, of violence.” — Kit Rocha Copy Share Image
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“Our power lies in the depth of our compassion and in our abilities to imagine each other in ourselves.” — barbara harrison Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the words people don't say are as powerful as the ones they do.” — Ann E. Burg Copy Share Image
“Be strong so nobody defeats you, noble so nobody humiliates you, and yourself so nobody forgets you.” — Paulo Cohleo Copy Share Image
“Everywhere the weak execrate the powerful, before whom they cringe; and the powerful beat them like sheep whose wool and flesh they sell.” — Voltaire 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
“Academic masochism reflects a metaphysical prejudice that the truth should be a hard-won treasure, that what is read or learnt easily must therefore be… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image