Quotes of Alain de Botton

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We should learn to accommodate ourselves to “wrongness”, striving always to adopt a more forgiving, humorous and kindly perspective on its multiple examples in ourselves and in our partners.

- Alain de Botton

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“ If you don't run your own life, somebody else will. ”

- John Atkinson

“ Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great. ”

- Niccolo Machiavelli

“ I would die for you. But I won't live for you. ”

- Stephen Chbosky

“ I have come from the End of the World. From the River of Dreams, through the gauntlet and the Briar and the Deep Wyld, in order to stand before you today. I have but one request—to take my place at your side. To resume my duty as your knight, and to protect you and your kingdom for as long as I draw breath. ”

- Julie Kagawa

“ There are many Mondays to go before I die. I may as well look forward to them. ”

- Trevor Carss

“ It takes guts and humility to admit mistakes. Admitting we're wrong is courage, not weakness. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ As an African elite, look within and ask, what can I do to change the present African narratives? What niche can I carve and do my uncompromising best to lift this continent? For my sake and for the sake of my children Jumoke Odepe ”

- Jumoke Odepe

“ The more one judges, the less one loves. ”

- Honore de Balzac

“ Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase. ”

- Martin Luther King

“ A failure is always in the passenger seat in his or her life. ”

- Stephen Richards

“ It is now how good you are, it’s how good you want to be. ”

- Unknown

“ Never worry a bit in Life. Always be full of merriment. ”

- sharda sriram

“ At one time or another we are all called to leave the safety of our homes, the certainty of what we know, the illusions of who we are. Not everyone will heed this call, of course. And those who do will risk losing themselves completely. But if we choose to ignore the invitation, we risk never knowing who we might have become. We risk dying without knowing what it is to live. ”

- Thomas Lloyd Qualls

“ The sun shall always rise upon a new day and there shall always be a rose garden within me. Yes, there is a part of me that is broken, but my broken soil gives way to my wild roses. ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ With love comes the risk of losing it. With love comes the risk of getting burnt with it. When love burns, it consumes even the soul. ”

- Jyoti Arora

“ If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit. ”

- Banksy

“ You are successful in my book if you do what you love for a living; you do not owe money to anyone; you have a place what you call home; you have a wife/husband, a girlfriend/boyfriend, or a partner who loves and respects you; and most importantly, you are surrounded by friends and loved ones who stand by you in good and bad days. ”

- JOHN TASKINSOY

“ Mistakes are not bad; excuses are. ”

- Udai Yadla

“ My love for you does not recognize boundaries, distances, borders, or timezones! ”

- Avijeet Das

“ In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk. ”

- Robert T. Kiyosaki

“ The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink. ”

- T.S. Eliot

“ There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable. ”

- Chesterton

“ Our own selfesteem is something we can actually twist in whatever way we want. ”

- Stephen Richards