“Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.”Help us translate this quoteAlain de Botton
“As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.”Help us translate this quoteAlain de Botton
“To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.”Help us translate this quoteAlain de Botton
“Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.”Help us translate this quoteAlain de Botton
“The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.”Help us translate this quoteAlain de Botton
“Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.”Help us translate this quoteAlain de Botton
“Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.”Help us translate this quoteAlain de Botton
“You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them.”Help us translate this quoteAlain de Botton
“What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.”Help us translate this quoteAlain de Botton
“The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn't call.”Help us translate this quoteAlain de Botton Origine: On Love
“Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same.”Help us translate this quoteAlain de Botton Origine: How Proust Can Change Your Life
“One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.”Help us translate this quoteAlain de Botton
“Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.”Help us translate this quoteAlain de Botton Origine: On Love
“There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.”Help us translate this quoteAlain de Botton
“It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge.”Help us translate this quoteAlain de Botton libro Architettura e felicitàOrigine: The Architecture of Happiness
“You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.”Help us translate this quoteAlain de Botton
“The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness".”Help us translate this quoteAlain de Botton
“The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.”Help us translate this quoteAlain de Botton
“Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.”Help us translate this quoteAlain de Botton
“The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.”Help us translate this quoteAlain de Botton Origine: The Art of Travel