Alain de Botton Quote

How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?

Use your youth to do something useful or unique or ultimate.

This is a day of celebration!Today, we are divorcing the pastand marrying the present.Dance,and you will find Godin every room.Today, we are divorcing resentmentand marrying forgiveness.Sing,and God w...

Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the fu...

I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.

I need to stop running back to you in my mind all the time.

One of these days, will become a this day. And that day, will be the preeminent of days to come.

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget; but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open...

To say nothing is saying something. You must denounce things you are against or one might believe that you support things you really do not.