#status

Single is not a status, it is a word that describes a person who is strong enough to live and enjoy life without depending on others. ↗

— prixie

#describe #enjoy #enough #life #live

The desire for high status is never stronger than in situations where "ordinary" life fails to answer a median need for dignity and comfort. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#status #life

One can be certain that every generally held idea, every received notion, will be an idiocy, because it has been able to appeal to a majority. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#status-anxiety #life

Money can't buy happiness but it can buy a huge yacht that sails right next to it. ↗

— David Lee Roth

#images #money #moral-decay #status #values

as the determinants of high status keep shifting, so, too, naturally, will the triggers of status anxiety be altered. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#status #nature

A person can't help their birth. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#vanity

Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo. ↗

— Karl Barth

#god #ideology #nothing #quo #revelation

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

#anxiety #definitely #essentially #exists #humiliating

The show I did in England catered to a broad range of people. I like that. I don't want nouveau cult status, though I know we've got that sort of audience in the states. ↗

— Tracey Ullman

#broad #broad range #cult #did #england

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness. ↗

— Chanakya

#above #any #below #friends #friendships