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Alain de Botton quotes about happy

English Writer December 20, 1969

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Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same. Alain de Botton
Alain de Botton quote: "Good sex isn’t just fun, it keeps us sane and happy. Having..."
Good sex isn’t just fun, it keeps us sane and happy. Having sex with someone makes us feel wanted, alive and potent Alain de Botton
However powerful our technology and complex our corporations, the most remarkable feature of the modern working world may in the end be internal, consisting in an aspect of our mentalities: in the widely held belief that our work should make us happy. All societies have had work at their centre; ours is the first to suggest that it could be something more than a punishment or a penance. Ours is the first to imply that we should seek to work even in the absence of a financial imperative. Alain de Botton
Out of the millions of people we live among, most of whom we habitually ignore and are ignored by in turn, there are always a few that hold hostage our capacity for happiness, whom we could recognize by their smell alone and whom we would rather die than be without. 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
what we call a home is merely any place that succeeds in making more consistenly available to us the important truths which the wider world ignores, or which our distracted and irresolute selves have trouble holding onto." (p123) Architecture of Happiness Alain de Botton
Alain de Botton quote: "The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly..."
The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "luxury. Alain de Botton
Alain de Botton quote: "Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to..."
Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers. Alain de Botton

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