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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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…
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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