Alain de Botton Quote

If you want to brighten up a person's day.Give them a rainbow.

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...

A bird that fears falling off of a tree branch is ignorant of its gifts.

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...

what is not true does not exist in this moment.

Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point...

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

My belief is that communication is the best way to create strong relationships.

Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.

Sacrifice of the self is sheer stupidity if sacrifice is not for the self.