Alain de botton quotes love

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To be loved by someone is to realize how much they share the same needs that lie at the heart of our own attraction to them. Albert Camus suggested that we fall in love with people because, from the outside, they look so whole, physically whole and emotionally 'together' - when subjectively we feel dispersed and confused. We would not love if there were no lack within us, but we are offended by the discovery of a similar lack in the other. Expecting to find the answer, we find only the…

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that’s ok with them. — Alain de Botton, The Course of Love: A Novel | being weird with the person you love. Accepting someone for who they are, not who you want them to be. Deep love quotes for your soulmate, knowing you will have a weird, unconditional love that will be happy and romantic. #lovequotes #soulmate #partner #findinglove

I never wavered in my certainty that God did not exist. I was simply liberated by the thought that there might be a way to engage with religion without having to subscribe to its supernatural content - a way, to put it in more abstract terms, to think about Fathers without upsetting my respectful memory of my own father. I recognized that my continuing resistance to theories of an afterlife or of heavenly residents was no justification for giving up on the music, buildings, prayers, rituals…

Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we see before us, melancholy at an awareness of how seldom we are sufficiently blessed to encounter anything of its kind. The flawless object throws into perspective the mediocrity that surrounds it. We are reminded of the way we would wish things always to be and of how incomplete our lives remain.

Alain de Botton and his famous quote Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them