Alain de Botton Quotes, Pain Quotes, Thinking Quotes

We don't really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped ... We suffer, therefore we think.

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I think it is important that we are targeting HIV/AIDS resources into the communities where we're seeing the highest growth rates. That means education and prevention, particularly with young people.

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No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what they think you are or what they think you should be.

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Physical immortalists today, those who think science will find a way to keep us young forever, would call Hanaya Yanagihara scenario the Tithonus error. They think they'll find another way. I'm not so sure. It seems like her book views immortality as a dangerous desire.

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I think that ethical behaviour is another feature of the kind of inner discipline that leads to a happier existence.

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It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off.

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I think soft power definitely can work. But, you know, it depends on who you're dealing with. Some people are so intent upon power and keeping power that it's very difficult to conduct soft power.

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I care not where my body may take me as long as my soul is embarked on a meaningful journey.

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

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Tomorrow will give us something to think about

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It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another.

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I think God is in us. I think we manifest God in every moment.

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You think that enlightenment is something other than what is happening right now. This is your primary mistake.

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Every woman thinks herself attractive; even the plainest is satisfied with the charms she deems that she possesses.

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Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky.

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When you take a tree that is rooted in the ground, and transfer it from one place to another, the tree will no longer bear fruit. And if it does, the fruit will not be as good as it was in its original place. This is a rule of nature. I think if I had left my country, I would be the same as the tree.

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I thought I could start over, you see. But now I know you can never start over. Not really. You think you have control, but you are like a fly in somebody else's web. Sometimes I think that's why I like accounting. All day, you are only dealing with numbers. You add them, multiply them, and if you are careful, you will always have a solution. There's a sequence there. An order. With numbers, you can have control.

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I think all happiness depends on the energy to assume the mask of some other life, on a re-birth as something not one's self.

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I still love church. My favorite church service is T.D. Jakes at the Potter's House. I don't think there is a better preacher in the country. His ability to interpret scripture is like no other.

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Exemplary people concern themselves with virtue, small people concern themselves with territory. The ruling class thinks of punishment, the lower classes hope for benevolence.

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