Alain de Botton Quote

It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not need or even want them or it.

Forgiveness is a transformative act because it asks you to be a more empathetic and compassionate person, thereby making you better than the person you were when you were first hurt.

Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.

After you hear and listen. First must come desire. Second must come willingness.Third should come understanding.Fourth should come progression and with progression will come more understanding.

Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the...

Life is more fragile and precious than I can comprehend, but believe me, I'm trying.

To hear never-heard sounds, To see never-seen colors and shapes, To try to understand the imperceptible Power pervading the world; To fly and find pure ethereal substances That are not of matter But o...

Rather blessings, after counting my misfortunes, I realized how the more blessed I am.

Looking but not seeing is the hearing but not understanding of the eye.