Alain de Botton : (14)

" Parents become very good at not hearing the explicit words and listening instead to what the child means but doesn’t yet know how to say: ‘I’m lonely, in pain, frightened’ – distress which then unfairly comes out as an attack on the safest, kindest, most reliable thing in the child’s world: the parent. " - Alain de Botton

" We must study love the way we study anything else that matters. " - Alain de Botton

" I assemble my ideas in pieces on a computer file, then gradually find a place for them on a piece of scaffolding I erect. " - Alain de Botton

" Love is something that we need to learn. " - Alain de Botton

" Often we think love is a feeling: that you spontaneously experience it. " - Alain de Botton

" There is militaristic-hegemonic-plutocratic side of the U.S. which is getting out of hand and threatens to corrupt the whole republic. I remain a deeply concerned, committed admirer, but also a very worried one. " - Alain de Botton

" To a shameful extent, the charm of marriage boils down to how unpleasant it is to be alone. " - Alain de Botton

" The essential argument in the book, ‘Art as Therapy,’ is that art enjoys such financial and cultural prestige that it’s easy to forget the confusion that persists about what it’s really for. " - Alain de Botton

" As in all areas, we can improve how good we are at loving another person. " - Alain de Botton

" It’s great to get an ‘F’, but you also want to give the sense that there’s something outside achievement. I’ve seen a lot of so-called high-achievers who don’t feel they’ve achieved much. " - Alain de Botton