If it is true that love is the pursuit in another of qualities we lack in ourselves, then in our love of someone from another culture, one ambition may be to weld ourselves more closely to values missing from our own culture.
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.
- 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.
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.
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.
Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things. - Alain De Botton
Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.
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.
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