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#1

“Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.”
― Alain de Botton

tags: intimacy, relationships, weirdness

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#2

“There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.”
― Alain de Botton

tags: balance, life, work, work-life-balance

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#3

“A good half of the art of living is resilience.”
― Alain de Botton

tags: life, living, resilience

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#4

“The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.”
― Alain de Botton

tags: despair, hope, perspective

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#5

“Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.”
― alain de botton

tags: aging, learning, life, self, self-knowledge

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#6

“There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.”
― Alain de Botton

tags: behavior, life, personality, weirdness

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#7

“Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.”
― Alain de Botton

tags: control, despair, foresight, hope, surrender

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#8

“There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.”
― Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life

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#9

“What kills us isn't one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can't turn down for fear of disappointing others.”
― Alain de Botton

tags: disappointment, obligations

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#10

“Good sex isn’t just fun, it keeps us sane and happy. Having sex with someone makes us feel wanted, alive and potent”
― Alain de Botton

tags: happiness, life, sex

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#11

“As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.”
― Alain de Botton

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#12

“The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren't there. The answers are there in the morning.”
― Alain de Botton

tags: answers, brain, mind, questions, subconscious, thinking

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