Life Quotes Quote by Alain de Botton — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“The most boring and unproductive question one can ask of any religion is whether or not it is true.”

“Far from rejecting outright any hierarchy of success or failure, philosophy instead reconfigures the judging process, lending legitimacy to theidea that themainstream value system may unfairly consign some people to disgrace and others to respectability.”

“A good half of the art of living is resilience.”

“Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.”

“The start receives such disproportionate attention because it isn't deemed to be just one phase among many; for the Romantic, it contains in a concentrated form everything significant about love as a whole. Which is why, in so many love stories, there is simply nothing else for the narrator to do with a couple after they have triumphed over a range of initial obstacles other than to consign them to an ill-defined contented future--or kill them off. What we typically call love is only the start of love.”

“Things will get easier, people's minds will change, and you should be alive to see it.”

“Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.”

“Hanya orang-orang dengan hati damailah yang boleh menerima kejadian buruk dengan lega.”

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”

“How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?”

“There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.”