Perhaps because the origins of a certain kind of love lie in an impulse to escape ourselves and out weaknesses by an alliance with the beautiful and noble. But if the loved ones love us back, we are forced to return to ourselves, and are hence reminded of the things that had driven us into love in the first place. Perhaps it was not love we wanted after all, perhaps it was simply someone in whom to believe, but how can we continue to believe the the beloved now that they believe in us?
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
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
There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life. - Alain De Botton
There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.
Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough. - Alain De Botton
Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.
It is striking how much more seriously we are likely to be taken after we have been dead a few centuries. - Alain De Botton
It is striking how much more seriously we are likely to be taken after we have been dead a few centuries.
We don't really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped ... We suffer, th… - Alain De Botton
We don't really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped ... We suffer, th…
Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people. - Alain De Botton
Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people.
At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality. - Alain De Botton
At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.
I know a lot about writing, but I don't know much about how other industries work. I've tried to use my naivety to my advantage. - Alain De Botton
I know a lot about writing, but I don't know much about how other industries work. I've tried to use my naivety to my advantage.
Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things. - Alain De Botton
Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.
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