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“Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.”

Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

“You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them.”

Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

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

Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

“One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?”

Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

“The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.”

Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

“Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.”

Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

“Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.”

Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

“I say if your fear of criticism is stronger than your desire for success, you've failed in thought, long before action.”

Cha Cha (rapper) (1980) American rapper, radio personality and actress

“To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.”

Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

“One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.”

Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

“Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.”

Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

“Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.”

Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

“Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.”

Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

“As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.”

Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

“The true measurement of a person's worth isn't what they say they believe in, but what they do in defense of those beliefs. If you're not acting on your beliefs, then they probably aren't real.”

Edward Snowden (1983) American whistleblower and former National Security Agency contractor

“Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

„Myslím, že lidé nerozumí. Jak říkali Firesign Theater: "Všechno, co víte, je špatně." Ale to je velmi osvobozující pochopení, protože pokud je všechno, co víte, špatně, pak všechny problémy, které jste považovali za neřešitelné, můžete formulovat jinak.“

Terence McKenna (1946–2000)

“Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed. ”

Terence McKenna (1946–2000) American ethnobotanist

“You see, a secret is not something untold. It’s something which can’t be told.”

Terence McKenna (1946–2000) American ethnobotanist