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It is as if we need to be reminded of convention in order properly to appreciate the wonder of being unguarded...

It is as if we need to be reminded of convention in order properly to appreciate the wonder of being unguarded…
– Alain de Botton

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  1. By convention sweet and by convention bitter, by convention hot, by convention cold, by convention color; but in reality atoms and void. – Democritus
  2. To appreciate life’s small moments, it helps to have a sense the whole can never be made perfect. – Alain de Botton
  3. The feeling one has no time to get anything done provides the pressure that guarantees one does get some things done. – Alain de Botton
  4. Most of what makes a book ‘good’ is that we are reading it at the right moment for us. – Alain de Botton
  5. Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books written because authors couldn’t find anyone to talk to. – Alain de Botton
  6. Work begins when the fear of doing nothing at all finally trumps the terror of doing it badly. – Alain de Botton
  7. It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things. – Alain de Botton
  8. You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days. – Alain de Botton
  9. Art was the very antithesis of crass moralism. – Alain de Botton
  10. To look at the paper is to raise a seashell to one’s ear and to be overwhelmed by the roar of humanity. – Alain de Botton
  11. The quickest way to stop noticing something, may be to buy it-”just as the quickest way to stop appreciating someone may be to marry him or her. – Alain de Botton
  12. Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness? – Alain de Botton
  13. The Anxiety of Sunday afternoon: your unlived lives and infinite possibility pressing upon the constraints of reality. – Alain de Botton
  14. The rich believe that their money will insulate them from setbacks and frustrations, and that’s one of the absurdist expectations of all. – Alain de Botton
  15. As victims of hurt, we frequently don’t bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day. – Alain de Botton
  16. A good half of the art of living is resilience. – Alain de Botton
  17. One cannot read a novel without ascribing to the heroine the traits of the one we love. – Alain de Botton
  18. Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself. – Alain de Botton
  19. Importance of the random: keep brushing up against people, books, experiences we don’t yet know what to do with. – Alain de Botton
  20. Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough. – Alain de Botton
  21. Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappearance as about the loss itself. – Alain de Botton
  22. Most business meetings involve one party elaborately suppressing a wish to shout at the other: ‘just give us the money’. – Alain de Botton
  23. Instead of bringing back 1600 plants, we might return from our journeys with a collection of small unf̻ted but life-enhancing thoughts. РAlain de Botton
  24. The study of maps and the perusal of travel books aroused in me a secret fascination that was at times almost irresistible. – Alain de Botton
  25. The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to. – Alain de Botton
  26. Insomnia is his mind’s revenge for all the tricky thoughts he has carefully avoided during the daylight hours. – Alain de Botton
  27. Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude – not a punishment for making money. – Alain de Botton
  28. We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us. – Alain de Botton
  29. The best cure for one’s bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person. – Alain de Botton
  30. Just be yourself’ is about the worst advice you can give some people. – Alain de Botton
  31. Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand. – Alain de Botton
  32. The most courageous act in politics is to try to understand your opponent. – Alain de Botton
  33. Maturity: knowing where you’re crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control. – Alain de Botton
  34. Being snappy is a symptom of an argument we forgot to have some way back. – Alain de Botton
  35. The continuing belief that the world is fundamentally just is implied in the very complaint that there has been an injustice. – Alain de Botton
  36. It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. – Alain de Botton
  37. Half the ingratitude and complacency in the world down to how slowly and imperceptibly most good and bad things unfold. – Alain de Botton
  38. We never envy another’s achievement more than when we know very little about how it was attained. – Alain de Botton
  39. The more people you have to ask for permission, the more dangerous a project gets. – Alain de Botton
  40. Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge. – Alain de Botton

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