Harrison King > Harrison's Quotes

“Nothing satisfies the man who is not satisfied with a little.”
― Alain de Botton, The Consolations of Philosophy

“The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.”
― Albert Einstein

“All problems are illusions of the mind.”
― Eckhart Tolle, Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now

“Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.”
― Eckhart Tolle

“...no one is able to produce a great work of art without experience, nor achieve a worldly position immediately, nor be a great lover at the first attempt; and in the interval between initial failure and subsequent success, in the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation. We suffer because we cannot spontaneously master the ingredients of fulfilment.”
― Alain de Botton, The Consolations of Philosophy

“Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.”
― Alain de Botton, The Consolations of Philosophy

“at the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.”
― Alain de Botton, The Consolations of Philosophy

“Americanism: Using money you haven't earned to buy things you don't need to impress people you don't like.”
― Robert Quillen

“We may be powerless to alter certain events, but we remain free to choose our attitude towards them, and it is in our spontaneous acceptance of necessity that we find our distinctive freedom.”
― Alain de Botton, The Consolations of Philosophy

“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
― Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless

“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.”
― Richard P. Feynman