Alain de Botton

STATUS QUOtes — 20210917

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“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

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“If I get to be me, I belong. If I have to be like you, I fit in.” — Brené Brown

“Isn’t it strange how life won’t flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forwards in a kind of flood?” — Anita Desai

“People who readily accept the need for a gym will resist that their personalities might need some work too.” — Alain de Botton

“Go through your personal phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren’t bad people; they’re just acquaintances.” — Jay Leno

 

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— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20200629

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“All the good stuff is on the other side of tired.” — Andre Agassi

“Training was like sweeping the floor. Just because we’ve done it once, doesn’t mean the floor is clean forever. Every day the dust comes back. Every day we must sweep.” — Ryan Holiday

“There are generations yet unborn, whose very lives will be shifted and shaped by the moves you make and the actions you take.” — Andy Andrews

“True love is a lack of desire to check one’s smartphone in another’s presence.” — Alain de Botton

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20200415

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“When fishermen can’t go to sea, they mend their nets. — Unknown

“There are two reasons why people don’t talk about things; either it doesn’t mean anything to them, or it means everything.” — Luna Adriana

“Work is most fulfilling when you’re at the comfortable, exciting edge of not quite knowing what you are doing.” — Alain de Botton

“Show me a ten-foot wall and I’ll show you an eleven-foot ladder.” — Peter Bevelin

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20200320

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“Nothing ever becomes real ’til it is experienced.” — John Keats

“My view of human nature is that all of us are just holding it together in various ways — and that’s okay, and we just need to go easy with one another, knowing that we’re all these incredibly fragile beings.” — Alain De Botton

“People will always try to stop you doing the right thing if it is unconventional.” — Warren Buffett

“Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.” — Elizabeth Taylor

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20200213

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“A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.” — Saul Bellow

“Keep guard over your eyes and ears as the inlets of your heart, and over your lips as the outlets, lest they betray you in a moment of unwariness.” — Anne Bronte

“To be shown love is to feel ourselves the object of concern: our presence is noted, our name is registered, our views are listened to, our failings are treated with indulgence and our needs are ministered to. And under such care, we flourish.” — Alain de Botton

“All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.” — Erma Bombeck

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20191208

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“Intelligence is nothing without delight.” — Paul Claudel

“We should keep a careful diary of our moments of envy: they are our covert guides to what we should try to do next.” — Alain de Botton

“Who has not gotten lost, sometime or other, in their own subtleties?” — Leslie Miklosy

“It’s not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line.” — Ashleigh Brilliant

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20190902

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“Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.” — Albert Schweitzer

“When you’re average, you’re just as close to the bottom as you are the top.” — Alfred North Whitehead

“If I’d known how many problems I was going to run into before I finished, I can’t remember a single project I would have started.” — Andy Rooney

“The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other’s smartphone.” — Alain de Botton

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20190519

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“Counsel them and advise them; if they do not listen, let adversity teach them.” — African proverb

“Those things that are the most obvious are the very things we’ve most likely to overlook.” — Pittacus Lore

“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

“He was like a rooster who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.” — George Eliot

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20190320

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“The best cure for one’s bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.” — Alain de Botton

“How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.” — J.R.R. Tolkien

“You can learn as much – or more – from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.” — Malcolm Gladwell

“I’d be the only dad keeping his kids home from school to teach me how to get to the next level on a video game.” — Clinton Jackson

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20170316

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“A middling mind always benefits from a lack of competition.” — Rick Bayan

“Individual commitment to a group effort: That is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work.” — Vince Lombardi

“A small town is a place where there’s no place to go where you shouldn’t.” — Burt Bacharach

“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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