One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an a…

Alain de Botton
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One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone. ✨ Twitter post from Mar 16, 2014
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The desire for high status is never stronger than in situations where ordinary life fails to answer a median need for dignity and comfort. ✨ Alain De Botton (2008). Status Anxiety, p.250, Vintage
Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappearance as about the loss itself.
Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.
Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same. ✨ Alain de Botton (2012). How Proust Can Change Your Life, p.59, Pan Macm … ▶
Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason. ✨ Twitter post from Jan 13, 2013

One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone. ✨ Twitter post from Mar 16, 2014

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