Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.

Alain De Botton
Some Similar Quotes
  1. We're all golden sunflowers inside. - Allen Ginsberg

  2. Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived. - Eleanor Roosevelt

  3. [F]or just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else. It's here, and you'd better decide... - Lev Grossman

  4. In a person's lifetime there may be not more than half a dozen occasions that he can look back to in the certain knowledge that right then, at that moment, there was room for nothing but happiness in his heart. - Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

  5. Learn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon. - Charles M. Schulz

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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