Alain de Botton Quote Explained: There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.

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How generous was it to offer gifts to people one knew would never accept them?

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Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.

- Alain de Botton

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· Switzerland

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Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.

- Alain de Botton

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· Switzerland

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Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.

- Alain de Botton

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· Switzerland

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True love is a lack of desire to check one’s smartphone in another’s presence.

- Alain de Botton

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· Switzerland

Desire
Love

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What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think?

- Alain de Botton

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· Switzerland

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Mental health: having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle.

- Alain de Botton

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· Switzerland

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Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves.

- Alain de Botton

Writer

· Switzerland

There’s a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.

There’s a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.

How generous was it to offer gifts to people one knew would never accept them?

Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.

Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.

Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.

True love is a lack of desire to check one’s smartphone in another’s presence.

What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think?

Mental health: having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle.

Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves.

As wonderful as dogs can be, they are famous for missing the point.

If some of the greats had followed the traditional ways we would be missing so much fine art.

We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.

And though the meaning fits, there’s no relief in this. I miss my beautiful friend.

The television replaced the sound of conversation that was missing from my grandparents’ lives.

I think you miss out on a lot of stuff when you’re so protected and isolated.

Sometimes the most ordinary things are the ones we learn to miss the most.

A nickname is not supposed to be your only name. I miss Jennifer a bit.

There’s a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.

There’s a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.

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