If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art are perhaps a little to blame, for in them we find the same process of simplification or selection at work as in the imagination.
Alain de BottonTags: art
Valuable elements may be easier to experience in art and in anticipation than in reality.
The anticipatory and artistic imaginations omit and compress, they cut away the periods of boredom and direct our attention to critical moments and, without either lying or embellishing, thus lend to life a vividness and a coherence that it may lack in the distracting woolliness of the present.
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Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.
Alain de BottonTags: happiness
Maturity: knowing where you're crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.
Alain de BottonTags: self-awareness control maturity craziness warnings
It's hard loving those who don't much like themselves: "If you're so great, why would you think I'm so great.
Alain de BottonTags: love self-esteem self-hatred self-love
Alice cold make no sense of the despair into which she had fallen. She had always held that happiness should be defined as an absence of pain rather than the presence of pleasure. So why, with a decent job, good health, and a roof over her head, did she regularly and so childishly collapse into moist sobs?
Alain de BottonSex gets us out of the house and out of ourselves.
Alain de BottonOnce we are involved in a relationship, there is no longer any such thing as a minor detail.
Alain de BottonWithout sex, we would be dangerously invulnerable. We might believe we were not ridiculous. We wouldn't know rejection and humiliation so intimately.
Alain de BottonThere's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.
Alain de BottonTags: life personality weirdness behavior
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