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Happiness Quotes by Alain de Botton
- He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down,…
- Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of…
- Good sex isn't just fun, it keeps us sane and happy. Having sex with someone makes us feel wanted, alive and potent.
- The happiness that may emerge from taking a second look is central to Proust's therapeutic conception. It reveals the extent to which our dissatisfactions may…
- The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "luxury.
- Happiness is impossible for longer than 15 minutes. We are the descendants of creatures who, above all else, worried.
- If our lives are dominated by a search for happiness, then perhaps few activities reveal as much about the dynamics of this quest - in…
- Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.
- what we call a home is merely any place that succeeds in making more consistenly available to us the important truths which the wider world…
- Out of the millions of people we live among, most of whom we habitually ignore and are ignored by in turn, there are always a…
- We are tempted to believe that certain achievements and possessions will give us enduring satisfaction. We are invited to imagine ourselves scaling the steep cliff…
More Happiness Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
- What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. — Aristotle
- Friendship is essentially a partnership. — Aristotle
- The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make… — Richard Bach
- In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. — Richard Bach