Best Alain de Botton Proverbs
- You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days. Bashed
- If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful. Felt
- One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me? Asking
- Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all. All
- Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us. Book
- What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of… Anybody
- You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them. Annoyed
- Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person. Able
- Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappearance as about the loss itself. Disappearance
- Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them. Capacity
- Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice. Content
- Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from. Anger
- Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself. Basic
- The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness". Anxiety
- The most attractive are not those who allow us to kiss them at once [we soon feel ungrateful] or those who never allow us to… Allow
- We fall in love because we long to escape from ourselves with someone as beautiful, intelligent, and witty as we are ugly, stupid, and dull.… Approve
- Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there… Alive
- Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards. All
- A good half of the art of living is resilience. Art
- We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us. Crowd
- A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to. Attractive
- One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on. Best
- The assumption is that life doesn't need to be navigated with lessons. You can just do it intuitively. After all, you only need to achieve… Achieve
- Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time. Accumulated
- One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass. Age
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