One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy. —Alain de Botton More about this quote Tags: love perfection imperfection health Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations from Alain de Botton Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet. —Alain de Botton More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email It's great when you finally realize that being miserable doesn't protect you from bad stuff happening. —Alain de Botton More about this quote Tags: pessimism sadness miserable Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email You get down to work when the fear of having done nothing finally exceeds the fear of doing it wrong. —Alain de Botton More about this quote Tags: fear accomplishment error work Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The prestige of the news is founded on the unstated assumption that our lives are forever poised on the verge of critical transformation thanks to the two driving forces of modern history: politics and technology. —Alain de Botton in Religion for Atheists More about this quote Tags: news rapid change politics technology Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email We all possess wisdom that we lack the strength properly to enact in our lives. —Alain de Botton in Religion for Atheists More about this quote Tags: action wisdom strength Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet. —Alain de Botton More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's great when you finally realize that being miserable doesn't protect you from bad stuff happening. —Alain de Botton More about this quote Tags: pessimism sadness miserable Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You get down to work when the fear of having done nothing finally exceeds the fear of doing it wrong. —Alain de Botton More about this quote Tags: fear accomplishment error work Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The prestige of the news is founded on the unstated assumption that our lives are forever poised on the verge of critical transformation thanks to the two driving forces of modern history: politics and technology. —Alain de Botton in Religion for Atheists More about this quote Tags: news rapid change politics technology Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We all possess wisdom that we lack the strength properly to enact in our lives. —Alain de Botton in Religion for Atheists More about this quote Tags: action wisdom strength Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “health” Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. —Joseph Addison More about this quote Tags: mind health body cheerfulness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. —The Teaching of Buddha More about this quote Tags: health moment live the future the past Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email This is health: to have a body functioning so perfectly that when its few simple needs are met it never calls attention to its own existence. —Bertha Stuart Dyment More about this quote Tags: attention existence health Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The paths by which people journey toward happiness lie in part through the world about them and in part through the experience of their souls. On the one hand, there is the happiness which comes from wealth, honor, the enjoyment of life, from health, culture, science, or art; and, on the other hand, there is the happiness which is to be found in a good conscience, in virtue, work, philanthropy, religion, devotion to great ideas and great deeds. —Carl Hilty in Happiness: Essays on the Meaning of Life More about this quote Tags: virtue health soul experience happiness enjoyment art work wealth honor philanthropy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Everything I like is either illegal, immoral or fattening. —Alexander Woollcott More about this quote Tags: health law morality illegal fattening Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. —Joseph Addison More about this quote Tags: mind health body cheerfulness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. —The Teaching of Buddha More about this quote Tags: health moment live the future the past Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
This is health: to have a body functioning so perfectly that when its few simple needs are met it never calls attention to its own existence. —Bertha Stuart Dyment More about this quote Tags: attention existence health Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The paths by which people journey toward happiness lie in part through the world about them and in part through the experience of their souls. On the one hand, there is the happiness which comes from wealth, honor, the enjoyment of life, from health, culture, science, or art; and, on the other hand, there is the happiness which is to be found in a good conscience, in virtue, work, philanthropy, religion, devotion to great ideas and great deeds. —Carl Hilty in Happiness: Essays on the Meaning of Life More about this quote Tags: virtue health soul experience happiness enjoyment art work wealth honor philanthropy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Everything I like is either illegal, immoral or fattening. —Alexander Woollcott More about this quote Tags: health law morality illegal fattening Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email