Alain de Botton Self Quotations
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- Mahatma Gandhi
- Ramana Maharshi
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Deepak Chopra
- Eric Hoffer
- Albert Bandura
- Mason Cooley
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Swami Vivekananda
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld
- Bruce Lee
- C S Lewis
- Eckhart Tolle
- Carl Jung
- Dalai Lama
- Wayne Dyer
- Marianne Williamson
- Aristotle
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
- Neale Donald Walsch
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Falling In Love Quotes
Every fall into love involves the triumph of hope over self-knowledge. We fall in love hoping we won't find in another what we know is in ourselves, all the cowardice, weakness, laziness, dishonesty, compromise, and stupidity. We throw a cordon of love around the chosen one and decide that everything within it will somehow be free of our faults. We locate inside another a perfection that eludes us within ourselves, and through our union with the beloved hope to maintain (against the evidence of all self-knowledge) a precarious faith in our species.
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Jobs Quotes
The assumption is that life doesn't need to be navigated with lessons. You can just do it intuitively. After all, you only need to achieve autonomy from your parents, find a moderately satisfying job, form a relationship, perhaps raise some children, watch the onset of mortality in your parents' generation and eventually in your own, until one day a fatal illness starts gnawing at your innards and you calmly go to the grave, shut the coffin and are done with the self-evident business of life.