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One should always exaggerate the downside. Those who already feel sad will be reassured. Those who are happy will feel lucky.
— Alain de Botton (@alaindebotton)
It's the similarities that bring two people together; but the way the differences are handled that keeps them so.
— Alain de Botton (@alaindebotton)
Secret to a quiet life at work: be unhelpful enough you'll never be relied upon for much - but not so unhelpful you'll be sacked.
— Alain de Botton (@alaindebotton)
Being persuasive: remembering what it felt like not to hold one's current point of view.
— Alain de Botton (@alaindebotton)
Forgiveness requires a good memory - of all the times we wouldn't have made it unless someone had cut us some slack.
— Alain de Botton (@alaindebotton)
Work is most fulfilling when you're at the comfortable, exciting edge of not quite knowing what you are doing.
— Alain de Botton (@alaindebotton)
Definition of a failure: someone who needs other people to fail.
— Alain de Botton (@alaindebotton)
Deciding not to see someone in person is, sadly, not always a guarantee you can get them out of your life/imagination.
— Alain de Botton (@alaindebotton)
For most people, loving art doesn't mean pictures in museums: it means thinking deeply and intelligently about cars and clothes.
— Alain de Botton (@alaindebotton)
The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.
— Alain de Botton (@alaindebotton)
To become a proper writer, you have to forgive yourself the catastrophe of the first draft.
— Alain de Botton (@alaindebotton)
You have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of flowers, pretty skies and uneventful 'boring' days.
— Alain de Botton (@alaindebotton)
For paranoia about 'what other people think': remember that very few love, only some hate - and nearly everyone just doesn't care.
— Alain de Botton (@alaindebotton)
What modern power has understood: there's no need to censor information, all you need to do is keep people nicely distracted.
— Alain de Botton (@alaindebotton)
The foundation stone of morality: the always forgotten questions: 'What if this were your child? What if this was you?'
— Alain de Botton (@alaindebotton)
Spirit of social media: mania for taking immediate offence, pride in doing so, low prestige of forgiveness or understanding.
— Alain de Botton (@alaindebotton)
If humanity routinely forgot key bits of science there would be an outcry, but regular erosions in wisdom go by without protest.
— Alain de Botton (@alaindebotton)
If you want people to improve it¡¯s not enough to make them feel guilty. You have to make it feel attractive to be good.
— Alain de Botton (@alaindebotton)
Happiness: that blessed 10 minute interval between the resolution of one ambition and the emergence of the next.
— Alain de Botton (@alaindebotton)
Acquiring enemies may feel like a sign one's life has gone wrong: but it's more likely an indication one's found a few things to believe in.
— Alain de Botton (@alaindebotton)
Napoleon said: To understand someone, you have to understand what the world looked like when they were twenty.
— Alain de Botton (@alaindebotton)
An epidemic of loneliness created by the misguided idea that the only cure to it lies in romantic relationships.
— Alain de Botton (@alaindebotton)
The only people we can think of as normal are those we don't yet know very well.
— Alain de Botton (@alaindebotton)