Alain de Botton Quotes, Good Relationship Quotes

One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.

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It's hard loving those who don't much like themselves: "If you're so great, why would you think I'm so great.

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Gaffe-focused journalism: revenge of intelligent people who know true evils are out there but lack the access/time to get to them.

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Newspapers are being read all around. The point is not, of course, to glean new information, but rather to coax the mind out of its sleep-induced introspective temper.

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Responsible for wrapping the iron fist of authority in its velvet glove is Jane Axtell, head of the accountancy firm's Human Resources department.

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Blind impatience is equally evident in the fruit section. Our ancestors might have delighted in the occasional handful of berries found on the underside of a bush in late summer, viewing it as a sign of the unexpected munificence of a divine creator, but we became modern when we gave up on awaiting sporadic gifts from above and sought to render any pleasing sensation immediately and repeatedly available.

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It's as though either you accept [religious] doctrine and then you can have all the nice stuff, or you reject the doctrine and you're living in some kind of spiritual wasteland under the guidance of CNN and Walmart.

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Our bodies hold our minds hostage to their whims and rhythms.

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The good parent: someone who doesn't mind, for a time, being hated by their children.

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When you look at the Moon, you think, ‘I’m really small. What are my problems?’ It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the Moon a bit more often.

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Year-end financial statements express a truth about office life which is no less irrefutable yet also, in the end, no less irrelevant or irritating than an evolutionary biologist's proud reminder that the purpose of existence lies in the propagation of our genes.

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As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.

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There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.

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We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.

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True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.

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Life gives us no such handy markers - a storm comes, and far from this being a harbinger of death and collapse, during its course a person discovers love and truth, beauty and happiness, the rain lashing at the windows all the while.

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Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves.

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You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.

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Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.

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The secular world is full of holes. We have secularized badly.

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