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At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.

At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.

Alain de Botton
Lying, Heart, Frustration
"The Consolations of Philosophy". Book by Alain de Botton, Chapter III, Consolation For Frustration, 2000.

We keep a special place in our hearts for people who refuse to be impressed by us.

Alain de Botton
Heart, People, Special
Twitter post from Sep 18, 2012

Someone who has thought rationally and deeply about how the body works is likely to arrive at better ideas about how to be healthy than someone who has followed a hunch. Medicine presupposes a hierarchy between the confusion the layperson will be in about what is wrong with him, and the more accurate knowledge available to doctors reasoning logically. At the heart of Epicureanism is the thought that we are as bad at answering the question "What will make me happy?" as "What will make me healthy?" Our souls do not spell out their troubles.

Alain de Botton
Heart, Medicine, Doctors
"The Consolations of Philosophy". Book by Alain de Botton, 2000.

He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity - suggesting that a certain type of intelligence may be at heart nothing more or less than a superior capacity for dissatisfaction.

Alain de Botton
Heart, Mediocrity, May
"The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work". Book by Alain de Botton, 2008.

These inventors were elevating the formulation of entrepreneurial ideas to the status of a visionary activity. Though forced to justify their efforts in the pragmatic language of venture capital, they were at heart utopian thinkers intent on transforming the world.

Alain de Botton
Heart, Ideas, Effort
"The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work". Book by Alain de Botton, 2009.

Her lie was symptomatic of a certain pride she took in mocking the romantic, in being unsentimental, matter-of-fact, stoic; yet at heart she was the oppo site: idealistic, dreamy, giving, and deeply attached to everything she liked verbally to dismiss as "mushy.

Alain de Botton
Lying, Heart, Pride
Alain de Botton (2006). “On Love: A Novel”, p.42, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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