Quotes about Reflection
Our dissatisfactions may be the result of failing to look properly at our lives rather than the result of anything inherently deficient about them.
— Alain de Botton
We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.
— Alain de Botton
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.
— Alain de Botton
An urgent wish is no guarantor of a sound solution.
— Alain de Botton
The love of flowers is a consequence of modesty and an accommodation with disappointment. Some things need to go permanently wrong before we can start to admire the stem of a rose or the petals of a bluebell.
— Alain de Botton
Art builds up self-knowledge, and is an excellent way of communicating the resulting fruit to other people.
— Alain de Botton
We need long train journeys on which we have no wireless signal.
— Alain de Botton
Expecting to find the answer, we find only the duplicate of our own problem.
— Alain de Botton
The freedom to think involves the courage to stumble upon our demons.
— Alain de Botton
It is worth pointing out that feeling things (which usually means feeling them painfully ) is at some level linked to the acquisition of knowledge.
— Alain de Botton
There is no better way of coming to be aware of what one feels oneself than by trying to recreate in oneself what a master has felt.
— Alain de Botton
Reading is on the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it: it does not constitute it.
— Alain de Botton