Alain De Botton said this quote

“ Being put in our place by something larger, older, greater than ourselves is not a humiliation; it should be accepted as a relief from our insanely hopeful ambitions for our lives. ”

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

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There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.

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There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.

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The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.

~ Alain De Botton