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Our Lives Quotes by Alain de Botton
- 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…
- If our lives are dominated by a search for happiness, then perhaps few activities reveal as much about the dynamics of this quest - in…
- It is not just nature that defies us. Human life is as overwhelming... If we spend time in it [the vast spaces of nature], they…
- Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go.
- It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.
- Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we see before us,…
- 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 Our Lives Quotes
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have… — Mary Kay Ash
- I don't think we are going to become extinct. We're very clever and extremely resourceful - and we will find ways of… — David Attenborough
- Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions… — Saint Augustine
- Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture… — Diane Ackerman
- There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I… — George Matthew Adams
- When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives. — Ezra Taft Benson
- The biggest determinant in our lives is culture, where we are born, what the environment looks like. But the second biggest determinant… — Nicolas Berggruen
- Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of… — Irving Berlin
- The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and… — Annie Besant
- Compared to America or Europe, God isn't a big part of our lives here. I don't know anyone here who goes to… — Bjork