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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“We don't need to be constantly reasonable in order to have good relationships; all we need to have mastered is the occasional capacity to acknowledge with good grace that we may, in one or two areas, be somewhat insane.”

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

“You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the first place.”

“In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.”

““Never forget:”

“They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.”

“We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps are silly.”

“The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.”