阿蘭·德波頓
英國(guó)作家
The thought of death should usher us towards whatever happens to matter most to us; it should lend us the courage to pursue the way of life we value in our hearts.
Though debts are condemned in the financial world, the world of friendship and love may perversely depend on well-managed debts.
We will cease to be so angry once we cease to be so hopeful.
The motor of our ingenuity is the question ‘Does it have to be like this?’, from which arise political reforms, scientific developments, improved relationships, better books.
In the end, I've found that it doesn't really matter who you marry. If you like them at the beginning, you probably won't like them at the end. And if you start off hating them, there's always the chance you'll end up thinking they're all right.
A fine remedy for our anxieties over our low status in society may be to travel—whether literally or figuratively, by viewing works of art—through the gigantic spaces of the world.
Life seems to be a process of replacing one anxiety with another and substituting one desire for another
A feeling of beauty is a sign that we have come upon a material articulation of certain of our ideas of a good life.
Perhaps unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.