One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.

—Alain de Botton

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About Alain de Botton

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Alain de Botton (; born 20 December 1969) is a British author and public speaker. His books discuss various contemporary subjects and themes, emphasizing philosophy's relevance to everyday life. He published Essays in Love (1993), which went on to sell two million copies. Other bestsellers include How Proust Can Change...

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Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet.

—Alain de Botton

It's great when you finally realize that being miserable doesn't protect you from bad stuff happening.

—Alain de Botton

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You get down to work when the fear of having done nothing finally exceeds the fear of doing it wrong.

—Alain de Botton

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The prestige of the news is founded on the unstated assumption that our lives are forever poised on the verge of critical transformation thanks to the two driving forces of modern history: politics and technology.

—Alain de Botton in Religion for Atheists

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We all possess wisdom that we lack the strength properly to enact in our lives.

—Alain de Botton in Religion for Atheists

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More quotations tagged with “health”

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

—Joseph Addison

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The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

—The Teaching of Buddha

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This is health: to have a body functioning so perfectly that when its few simple needs are met it never calls attention to its own existence.

—Bertha Stuart Dyment

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The paths by which people journey toward happiness lie in part through the world about them and in part through the experience of their souls. On the one hand, there is the happiness which comes from wealth, honor, the enjoyment of life, from health, culture, science, or art; and, on the other hand, there is the happiness which is to be found in a good conscience, in virtue, work, philanthropy, religion, devotion to great ideas and great deeds.

—Carl Hilty in Happiness: Essays on the Meaning of Life

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Everything I like is either illegal, immoral or fattening.

—Alexander Woollcott

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