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Within Quotes by Alain de Botton
- On paper, being good sounds great but a lot depends on the atmosphere of the workplace or community we live in. We tend to become…
- Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves.
- 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…
- The activities of drawing, eating and drinking, all involve assimilations by the self of desirable elements from the world, a transfer of goodness from without…
- Every fall into love involves the triumph of hope over self-knowledge. We fall in love hoping we won't find in another what we know is…
- Nowhere was the airport's charm more concentrated than on the screens placed at intervals across the terminal which announced, in deliberately workmanlike fonts, the itineraries…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- To be loved by someone is to realize how much they share the same needs that lie at the heart of our own attraction to…
More Within Quotes
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about… — Karen Armstrong
- My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity. — Arthur Ashe
- I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours… — David Attenborough
- There is good and mediocre writing within every genre. — Margaret Atwood
- Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people… — Margaret Atwood
- During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks. — John James Audubon
- Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul. — Saint Augustine
- By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity. — Saint Augustine
- I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within. — Saint Augustine
- Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. — Marcus Aurelius