Best Alain de Botton Wisdom
- Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement. Achievement
- Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition. Ambition
- A world where a majority had imbibed the lessons implicit within tragic art would be one in which the consequences of our failures would necessarily… Art
- The desire for high status is never stronger than in situations where "ordinary" life fails to answer a median need for dignity and comfort. Answer
- Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand. Acceptance
- Philosophy, art, politics, religion and bohemia have never sought to do away entirely with the status hierarchy; they have attemptee, rather, to institute new kinds… Art
- To be shown love is to feel ourselves the object of concern: our presence is noted, our name is registered, our views are listened to,… Care
- We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to… Affection
- People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages. Bars
- According to one influential wing of modern secular society there are few more disreputable fates than to end up being 'like everyone else' for 'everyone… According
- The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are far from being… All
- Must being in love always mean being in pain? Always Mean
- At the beginning of human history, as we struggled to light fires and to chisel fallen trees into rudimentary canoes, who could have predicted that… Apologise
- It seems that most of us could benefit from a brush with a near-fatal disaster to help us recognise the important things that we are… Benefit
- Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go. Agents
- Being incomprehensible offers unparalleled protection against having nothing to say...but writing with simplicity requires courage, for there is a danger that one will be overlooked,… Belief
- It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however calming, was also a reminder of infidelity to… Absence
- .. if you asked most people whether they believed in love or not, they’d probably say they didn’t. Yet that’s not necessarily what they truly… All
- The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life. Destiny
- We used to build temples, and museums are about as close as secular society dares to go in facing up to the idea that a… Bad
- Perhaps the easiest people to fall in love with are those about whom we know nothing. Romances are never as pure as those we imagine… Aggressively
- In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion. Art
- If cynicism and love lie at opposite ends of a spectrum, do we not sometimes fall in love in order to escape the debilitating cynicism… Believe
- We depend on our surroundings obliquely to embody the moods and ideas we respect and then to remind us of them. We look to our… Arrange
- We need a home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for a vulnerability. We need a… Align
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