A Quote by Alain de Botton

We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful. — © Alain de Botton
We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.
Virtue is not a chemical product...it is a historic product, like language and literature; and this means that if we cease to care about it, cease to cultivate it, cease to transmit its funded values, a large part of it will become meaningless, like a dead language to which we have lost the key.
If you have the patience to wait and watch, history will reshape truth (weakest of all forces, and weightless) in the image of opinion. What really happened will cease to matter and, eventually, cease to exist.
Consciousness will always be present, though a particular consciousness may cease. For example, the particular tactile consciousness that is present within this human body will cease when the body comes to an end. Likewise, consciousnesses that are influenced by ignorance, by anger or by attachment, these too will cease. But the basic, ultimate, innermost subtle consciousness will always remain. It has no beginning, and it will have not end.
O cease! must hate and death return, Cease! must men kill and die? Cease! drain not to its dregs the urn Of bitter prophecy. The world is weary of the past, Oh, might it die or rest at last!
To lose faith in oneself is to cease to create; to cease to create is to cease to exist.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings?
It may be that we cease; we cannot tell. Even if we cease, life is a miracle.
You must cease from looking at human mistakes and look at successes; cease from seeing faults and see virtues.
All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.
There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.
Life is everchanging, if you cease to change, you cease to live.
The program is only the excuse to get you to watch the advertising. Without the ads there would be no programs. Advertising is the true content of television and if it does not remain so, then advertisers will cease to support the medium, and television will cease to exist as the popular entertainment it presently is.
Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope, or to fear.
There are five things which no one is able to accomplish in this world: first, to cease growing old when he is growing old; second, to cease being sick; third, to cease dying; fourth, to deny dissolution when there is dissolution; fifth, to deny non-being.
Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.
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