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

“Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.”

“I never wavered in my certainty that God did not exist. I was simply liberated by the thought that there might be a way to engage with religion without having to subscribe to its supernatural content - a way, to put it in more abstract terms, to think about Fathers without upsetting my respectful memory of my own father. I recognized that my continuing resistance to theories of an afterlife or of heavenly residents was no justification for giving up on the music, buildings, prayers, rituals, feasts, shrines, pilgrimages, communal meals and illustrated manuscripts of the faiths.”

“There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.”

“There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.”

“One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass.”

“Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.”

“Our life is made by the death of others.”

““So, preferring death to capture, I accomplished the most astonishing deeds, and which, more then once, showed me that the too great care we take of our bodies is the only obstacle to the sucess of those projects which require rapid decision, and vigorous and determined execution.”

“Our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world as being able to remake ourselves.”

“People live on the flow of the daily reality and they surge on the waves of hazy expectations. They can experience pleasant junctures and try to catch and enjoy each special moment that is offered to them. Until life takes them by surprise.”

“Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.”