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Alain de Botton

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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.


— Alain de Botton


#hardships #life #ordinary-days #beauty

Must being in love always mean being in pain?


— Alain de Botton


#love

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


— Alain de Botton


#learning #life #self #self-knowledge #age

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


#art

Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.


— Alain de Botton


#forgiveness #malice #suffering #understanding #forgiveness

It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.


— Alain de Botton


#architecture

Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.


— Alain de Botton


#love

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


— Alain de Botton


#life #work #work-life-balance #life

Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition.


— Alain de Botton


#anxiety #contemporary

Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.


— Alain de Botton


#embarrassment #learning #life #time #change






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It was a bestseller in the US and UK. What's in a Marriage?: Argues that expecting one person to be a good partner lover and parent is almost asking the impossible. —The Independent

Negative reviews allege that de Botton tends to state the obvious from a position of privilege and have characterized some of his books as pompous and lacking focus.

In August 2008 he was a founding member of a new educational establishment in central London called The School of Life. In October that year de Botton was appointed an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in recognition of his services to architecture. His books and television programmes discuss various contemporary subjects and themes emphasizing philosophy's relevance to everyday life.

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