Alain de Botton Quotes

I think a lot of women, especially ones that want to achieve career goals, tend to worry. I don't want anyone to worry their life away.

He knows that it is impossible to live in a state of complete relaxation.

I would say 70 percent of people who are in therapy are in therapy not because of their upbringing, not because of their mean sister or obsessions, but because of anxiety brought about by lack of financial security.

Better to be busy than to be busy worrying.

My anxiety level of my own work and what I'm doing and focusing on my art and all of that stuff? That's fundamental.

The challenge in my life really is keeping the balance between feeling creatively energized and fulfilled without feeling overwhelmed and like I'm in the middle of a battlefield.

I don't like to be crazy on different levels all of the time.

I'm miserable: that's why I have such a bad back, because I'm endlessly stressing out about my career.

I would rather not work than be a neurotic mess.

I still find it almost impossible to relax for more than one day at a time.

Stress is a designer ailment that many of the so-called afflicted suffer from with pride.

I usually spend my free time worrying about when I'm going to work next.

When I'm not working on something, I seem to go through periods of depression. It helps to keep busy.

I was losing sight of myself and started to get anxiety and stress. You work at such a pace and you don't have time to sit with yourself and think.

I wouldn't be alive without my work.

My girlfriend has to beat me up to get me to relax because I work all the time.

I worked myself into a frenzy. By 1996, I had a nervous breakdown just from working. I couldn't eat, couldn't sleep, just getting anxiety attacks and all of that stuff because I was doing too much, too young, all the time.

In fact, people think you have to be stressed to be successful. They think if you are not stressed, something is wrong with you.

It is not work that kills, but "worry."

Most everyone I know feels frazzled and overwhelmed most of the time.

Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence.... Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.

The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships, disease. As the nature of human life has become far more complicated, our ancient stress response hasn't been able to keep up.

Probably, if you are successful in this world you are stressed, and if you are a failure, you are bored!

Worry is a funky luxury when a lot has to be done.

No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.