Judged against eternity, how little of what agitates us makes any difference.

Alain De Botton
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  1. I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  2. Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive. - Dalai Lama Xiv

  3. Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. - Albert Camus

  4. The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars. - Bertolt Brecht

  5. All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.... - William Shakespeare

More Quotes By Alain De Botton
  1. One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.

  2. There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.

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

  4. The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.

  5. The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are far from being all we might be.

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