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Need Quotes by Alain de Botton
- 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…
- People who readily accept the need for a gym will resist that their personalities might need some work too.
- Differ though we might with Christianity's view of what precisely our souls need, it is hard to discredit the provocative underlying thesis, which seems no…
- It is the most ambitious and driven among us who are the most sorely in need of having our reckless hopes dampened through immersive dousings…
- We need objects to remind us of the commitments we've made. That carpet from Morocco reminds us of the impulsive, freedom-loving side of ourselves we're…
- It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Acquaintance with grief turns out to be one of the more unusual…
- There is a longing for a return to a time without the need for choices, free of the regret at the inevitable loss that all…
- It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our…
- The desire for high status is never stronger than in situations where "ordinary" life fails to answer a median need for dignity and comfort.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- In the oasis complex, the thirsty man images he sees water, palm trees, and shade not because he has evidence for the belief, but because…
- The universe is large and we are tiny, without the need for further religious superstructure. One can have so-called spiritual moments without belief in the…
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