Alain de Botton Quotes, Sleep Quotes, Mind Quotes

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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Never mind these failures, these little backslidings; hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more.

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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

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There are no boring subjects, only disinterested minds.

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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people's minds.

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And it did for one wild moment cross my mind that, perhaps, those might not be the very best judges of the relation of religion to happiness who, by their own account, had neither one nor the other.

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We are continuously challenged to discover new works of culture—and, in the process, we don’t allow any one of them to assume a weight in our minds.

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

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I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic.

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I am the source of my own suffering, because of the habits of my mind.

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We tend to believe in the modern secular world that if you tell someone something once, they'll remember it. ... Religions go, "Nonsense. You need to keep repeating the lesson 10 times a day. So get on your knees and repeat it." That's what all religions tell us: "Get on your knees and repeat it 10 or 20 or 15 times a day." Otherwise our minds are like sieves.

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We don’t need more money, we don’t need greater success or fame, we don’t need the perfect body or even the perfect mate-right now, at this very moment, we have a mind, which is all the basic equipment we need to achieve complete happiness.

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The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind.

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One of the hardest things in the world is to convey a meaning accurately from one mind to another.

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The mind, too, has its regimen. It needs gymnastics, just like the body does.

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It is noticed, that the consideration of the great periods and spaces of astronomy induces a dignity of mind, and an indifferenceto death.

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