Alain de Botton Quotes

When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.

It is an everlasting desire to make my dreams come true. And it's getting to the point now where it's like, come on I want my dreams to come true so that I can get on with the rest of my life. Sometimes I think about the rest of my life when I'm done.

Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.

Everything happens for a reason, and everything has a story, and if you take time to realise what your dream is and what you really want in life... whether it's sports, whether it's in other fields, you have to realise that there's always work to do.

Let's start anew. Life is goals - Purpose-Attempts - Struggle-Dreams and Accomplishmenties. It sounds confusing (my fault), but it's actually simple.

I didn't really know what I wanted to do, but I knew the woman I wanted to become.

There are so many things I want to do! Some are personal. Some are professional.

I'm not scared of growing old, I'm just scared of not achieving everything that I want to do.

Life is very short... but I would like to live four times and if I could, I would set out to do no other things than I am seeking now to do.

And they were writing scripts where Christine had hit the glass ceiling. And I always thought Christine would never hit the glass ceiling. I thought her dreams would take her. Maybe her dreams wouldn't take her where she wanted, but she still had her dreams.

That I am today the face of Louis Vuitton almost seems like a twist of fate. You dream back to front, wanting the rewards before putting the work in. And then you work, get on with life, and just sometimes these childhood dreams have a way of catching up with you. This is a true privilege for which I am eternally grateful.

I don't have goals in life.

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

I wanna live.

To not pursue the thing one wants would be a waste of one's life.

Dreams don't have deadlines. I'm thinking of doing bigger and better things and having more fun with it.

You're supposed to be using your gifts and fulfilling your dreams, at every age.

There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!

You dream what you're supposed to do.

I never lost my dreams in my 20s, and I know that sounds corny, but it's incredibly important to never let go of what you really want in your life.

I want to do really good things with my life.

This journey has always been about reaching your own other shore no matter what it is, and that dream continues.

Try hard to find out what you're good at and what your passions are, and where the two converge, and build your life around that.

I'm living what I always wanted to do.

Never say that your life is to be a singer. You want to sing because it's a part of your life. But if you don't succeed as a singer, it doesn't mean you don't have a life and it's over.