The Importance of Breakdowns: Crisis as a Clarifying Force for Authenticity

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/02/18/alain-de-botton-normalcy-breakdown/

There are two ways to keep a population passive: give them so little news, no one knows what is going on. Or deluge them with so much news, no one can keep track of what matters. - #AlainDeBotton “Quotes to live by” 2022. #AmericanPress

It’s so normal to want a better life; it’s so unusual to set out to be a better person. - #AlainDeBotton “Quotes to live by” 2022

A Chosen Path of Light: Alain de Botton on Successful Friendships

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2025/10/21/alain-de-botton-friendship/

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People are bad, always, because they are in difficulty. ... Contented people have no need to hurt others. One has to feel very small in order to belittle. - #AlainDeBotton in "The School of Life - an emotional education" 2019

Hardship

You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.

~ Alain de Botton

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Remember when we would only “experience a mild wave of melancholy at the tedium of daily routine” ? #LfeBeforeTrump2.0 #AlainDeBotton

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