Quotes from Alain de Botton
What we see evidence for in others, we will attend to within, what others are silent about, we may stay blind to or experience only in shame.
- Alain de Botton
Her mother always said one should never go to bed on an argument.
- Alain de Botton
The whole language of love had been corrupted by overuse.
- Alain de Botton
We have allowed our love stories to end too early. We seem to know too much about how love starts, and recklessly little about how it might continue.
- Alain de Botton
Maturity' really means: being very unsurprised by, and calm around, pain and disappointment.
- Alain de Botton
I like working with people. I believe change can only come through collaboration.
- Alain de Botton
There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.
- Alain de Botton
I do think that travel can be part of a journey of inner maturation, but you've got to do it right.
- Alain de Botton
One of love's greatest drawbacks is that, for a while at least, it is in danger of making us happy.
- Alain de Botton
What we typically call love is only the start of love. Our understanding of love has been hijacked and beguiled by its first distractingly moving moments.
- Alain de Botton
Work is most fulfilling when you're at the comfortable, exciting edge of not quite knowing what you are doing.
- Alain de Botton
Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.
- Alain de Botton