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(Alain De Botton) Quotes: "The good parent: someone who doesn't mind, for a time, being hated by their children."

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



(Alain De Botton) Quotes: "There is real danger of a disconnect between what's on your business card and who you are deep inside, and it's not a disconnect that the world is ready to be patient with."

There is real danger of a disconnect between what's on your business card and who you are deep inside, and it's not a disconnect that the world is ready to be patient with.




(Alain De Botton) Quotes: "People who readily accept the need for a gym will resist that their personalities might need some work too."

People who readily accept the need for a gym will resist that their personalities might need some work too.



(Alain De Botton) Quotes: "People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages."

People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.




(Alain De Botton) Quotes: "Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others."

Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.



(Alain De Botton) Quotes: "Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us."

Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.



(Alain De Botton) Quotes: "It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge."

It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge.




(Alain De Botton) Quotes: "As victims of hurt, we frequently don't bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day."

As victims of hurt, we frequently don't bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day.



(Alain De Botton) Quotes: "Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains."

Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains.



(Alain De Botton) Quotes: "Let death find us as we are building up our matchstick protests against its waves."

Let death find us as we are building up our matchstick protests against its waves.



(Alain De Botton) Quotes: "Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all."

Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.



(Alain De Botton) Quotes: "Our disrespect for thinking: someone sitting in a chair, gazing out of a window blankly, always described as 'doing nothing'."

Our disrespect for thinking: someone sitting in a chair, gazing out of a window blankly, always described as 'doing nothing'.




(Alain De Botton) Quotes: "It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however calming, was also a reminder of infidelity to what I had at one time held so dear."

It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however calming, was also a reminder of infidelity to what I had at one time held so dear.



(Alain De Botton) Quotes: "Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves."

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



(Alain De Botton) Quotes: "Curiosity takes ignorance seriously - and is confident enough to admit when it's in the dark. It is aware of not knowing. And then it sets out to do something about it."

Curiosity takes ignorance seriously - and is confident enough to admit when it's in the dark. It is aware of not knowing. And then it sets out to do something about it.



(Alain De Botton) Quotes: "The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be."

The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.



(Alain De Botton) Quotes: "Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself."

Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.



(Alain De Botton) Quotes: "One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on."

One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.



(Alain De Botton) Quotes: "Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from."

Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.



(Alain De Botton) Quotes: "There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it."

There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.



(Alain De Botton) Quotes: "I assemble my ideas in pieces on a computer file, then gradually find a place for them on a piece of scaffolding I erect."

I assemble my ideas in pieces on a computer file, then gradually find a place for them on a piece of scaffolding I erect.



(Alain De Botton) Quotes: "The real issue is not whether baking biscuits is meaningful, but the extent to which the activity can seem to be so after it has been continuously stretched and subdivided across five thousand lives."

The real issue is not whether baking biscuits is meaningful, but the extent to which the activity can seem to be so after it has been continuously stretched and subdivided across five thousand lives.



(Alain De Botton) Quotes: "The very act of drawing an object, however badly, swiftly takes the drawer from a woolly sense of what the object looks like to a precise awareness of its component parts and particularities."

The very act of drawing an object, however badly, swiftly takes the drawer from a woolly sense of what the object looks like to a precise awareness of its component parts and particularities.



(Alain De Botton) Quotes: "A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide."

A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.



(Alain De Botton) Quotes: "In the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation."

In the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation.



(Alain De Botton) Quotes: "Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value."

Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value.



(Alain De Botton) Quotes: "You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them."

You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them.



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

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



(Alain De Botton) Quotes: "Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with."

Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.



(Alain De Botton) Quotes: "It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do."

It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.



(Alain De Botton) Quotes: "A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough."

A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.



(Alain De Botton) Quotes: "Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to."

Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.



(Alain De Botton) Quotes: "The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones."

The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.



(Alain De Botton) Quotes: "Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance."

Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.



(Alain De Botton) Quotes: "It would be foolish to describe the logistics hub as merely ugly, for it has the horrifying, soulless, immaculate beauty characteristic of many of the workplaces of the modern world."

It would be foolish to describe the logistics hub as merely ugly, for it has the horrifying, soulless, immaculate beauty characteristic of many of the workplaces of the modern world.



(Alain De Botton) Quotes: "I think people want to get married to end their emotional uncertainty. In a way, they want to end powerful feelings, or certainly the negative ones."

I think people want to get married to end their emotional uncertainty. In a way, they want to end powerful feelings, or certainly the negative ones.



(Alain De Botton) Quotes: "There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most."

There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.



(Alain De Botton) Quotes: "Dreams reveal we never quite get 'over' anything: it's all still in there somewhere."

Dreams reveal we never quite get 'over' anything: it's all still in there somewhere.



(Alain De Botton) 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."

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.



(Alain De Botton) Quotes: "The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy."

The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy.



(Alain De Botton) Quotes: "One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass."

One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass.



(Alain De Botton) Quotes: "I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many non-fiction writers pay to the formal aspects of their work."

I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many non-fiction writers pay to the formal aspects of their work.



(Alain De Botton) Quotes: "Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them."

Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them.



(Alain De Botton) Quotes: "The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can't accept that."

The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can't accept that.



(Alain De Botton) Quotes: "The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to."

The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.



(Alain De Botton) Quotes: "In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion."

In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.



(Alain De Botton) Quotes: "One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?"

One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?



(Alain De Botton) Quotes: "Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person."

Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person.



(Alain De Botton) Quotes: "The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "luxury."

The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "luxury.