Quotes of Alain de Botton

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Writing a book is like telling a joke and having to wait 2 years to know whether or not it was funny.

- Alain de Botton

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“ It is easier to believe a lie than to claim parts of you that have been scattered and buried. Your willingness to search for what's been lost merely points to how immensely powerful you are. ”

- Kirstyn Lazur

“ We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love. ”

- Mother Teresa

“ Most people never truly live because they never do what they truly love. ”

- Tanner Walling

“ The art of existence is to find a sensation of spiritual expansion that makes you larger than existence itself. ”

- Talismanist Giebra

“ I was so blessed. The first person I gave my heart to was an angel who plucked the feathers off his wings and built a nest for it. ”

- Kamand Kojouri

“ It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not. ”

- Andre Gide

“ At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. ”

- Plato

“ When people think they know you and put you in a box, keep growing and give them the box. ”

- Jackie Griffin

“ Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Though lovers be lost love shall not. ”

- Dylan Thomas

“ If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it. ”

- William Arthur Ward

“ You left the same way you: with 6 duffle bags and your heart intact. ”

- Gandhi

“ There’s only so many variations on the basics of human relationships. To me, it’s all about the detail and how you tell the story. How you say, ‘I love you.’ ”

- K. Flay

“ Every risk bears with it the seeds of an opportunity: failure success, fall rise, and setback comeback. ”

- JOHN TASKINSOY

“ That's a misconception, Lennie. The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet. ”

- Jandy Nelson

“ I do love nothing in the world so well as you is not that strange? ”

- William Shakespeare

“ You see, when we set goals that feel safer and achievable, we are caving in to our own preconceived notions of what we are capable of. We’re not pushing past our comfort zone; we’re just settling for status quo. ”

- Ruth Soukup

“ Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread: remade all the time, made new. ”

- Og Mandino

“ Before, I wanted to say: "I found love!" But now, I want to say: "I found a person. And he belongs to me and I belong to him. ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand. ”

- Stephen King

“ Perfection does not exist you can always do better and you can always grow. ”

- Les Brown

“ My mama always used to tell me: ‘If you can’t find somethin’ to live for, you best find somethin’ to die for.’ ”

- Tupac Shakur