Best Quotes by Alain de Botton (Top 10)

  1. Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.
  2. Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.
  3. There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.
  4. We fall in love because we long to escape from ourselves with someone as beautiful, intelligent, and witty as we are ugly, stupid, and dull. But what if such a perfect being should one day turn around and decide they will love us back? We can only be somewhat shocked-how can they be as wonderful as we had hoped when they have the bad taste to approve of someone like us?
  5. You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.
  6. People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.
  7. 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.
  8. Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.
  9. Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.
  10. Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.

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