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Alain de Botton quotes about anxiety

English Writer December 20, 1969

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Alain de Botton quote: "Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more..."
Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom. Alain de Botton
Life seems to be a process of replacing one anxiety with another and substituting one desire for another--which is not to say that we should never strive to overcome any of our anxieties or fulfil any of our desires, but rather to suggest that we should perhaps build into our strivings an awareness of the way our goals promise us a respite and a resolution that they cannot, by definition, deliver. Alain de Botton
We are tempted to believe that certain achievements and possessions will give us enduring satisfaction. We are invited to imagine ourselves scaling the steep cliff face of happiness in order to reach a wide, high plateau on which we will live out the rest of our lives; we are not reminded that soon after gaining the summit, we will be called down again into fresh lowlands of anxiety and desire. Alain de Botton
The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness". Alain de Botton
Writing a book has about it some of the anxiety of telling a joke and having to wait several years to know whether or not it was funny. Alain de Botton
Alain de Botton quote: "as the determinants of high status keep shifting, so, too,..."
as the determinants of high status keep shifting, so, too, naturally, will the triggers of status anxiety be altered. Alain de Botton
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. Alain de Botton
Alain de Botton quote: "And I wondered, with mounting anxiety, What am I supposed to..."
And I wondered, with mounting anxiety, What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think? Alain de Botton
The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are far from being all we might be. Alain de Botton
Alain de Botton quote: "Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition."
Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition. Alain de Botton

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