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Alain De Botton Quotes

"Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.""True love is the desire to give, coupled with the realization that it is impossible to receive in return.""We need very little to make us happy; we need more to keep us that way.""Our higher existential needs are what motivate us to spend our brief time on the planet in meaningful ways.""Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.""Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough.""One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.""The process of love includes discovering what lies beneath the acceptably beautiful exterior.""Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that’s ok with them.""A good relationship is not a refuge from the stresses of the world, it’s a fantastic laboratory for determining how best to face them.""The greatest flaw of humankind is our inability to control our desires.""A good half of the art of living is resilience."