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Alain De Botton Quotes

"Our greatest victory is to reach an ordinary life with contentment.""We must allow fantasies to teach us important truths about our desires.""Our mistakes can be the portals to discovering ourselves.""What is hardest about reality is how much we have to pretend.""The interesting lives are not always the ones with the most adventures.""If we are to be entirely alive, it must be through feeling deeply.""We don't need to be constantly occupied to be fulfilled.""Life is a puzzle, its pieces are scattered fragments. It is the process that renders the beauty.""The desire to not meet expectations may be the only expectation we silently cherish ""Constraint mutes the naturally cacophonous character of our feelings and intentions ""It's a great blessing, we should think, for a person to have a fault to work on that isn't necessarily too bad in itself ""To create a more sincere experience of ourselves we have to be willing to express what we would otherwise repress ""The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it ""The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts ""What we encounter with the heart is not simply something to be valued but something to be pursued for its own sake ""There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart ""In our single life, we should use our time for growth, self-discovery and preparation for future love.""The greatest threat to our happiness lies in the failure to appreciate the present moment.""The true hero is the one who conquers his own anger and hatred.""Our strength lies not in surpassing others, but in the realization that we can surpass ourselves."