12 beautiful quotes by Alain de Botton. Click any quote to view, download and share it as an image.
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Alain de Botton
“Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.”
“Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.”
“The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destinat...
“Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.”
“It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we mig...
“Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books written because authors couldn...
“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 the...
“You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.”
“One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?”
“There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.”
“The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.”
“It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things....
