Alvin Mahmudov

15 Alain De Botton Quotes That Will Make You Believe In Soulmates Again

"Love stories begin not when we fear someone may be unwilling to see us again but when they decide they would have no objection to seeing us all the time."
Marisa Donnelly
December 14, 2016
“A marriage doesn't begin with a proposal, or even an initial meeting. It begins far earlier, when the idea of love is born, and more specifically the dream of a soulmate.”
— Alain de Botton, The Course of Love: A Novel
Tagged: Love, Marriage, Soul Mates, This Is Love, True Love, When Love Begins
“It may come very fast, this certainty that another human being is a soul mate. We needn't have spoken with them; we may not even know their name. Objective knowledge doesn't come into it. What matters instead is intuition, a spontaneous feeling that seems all the more accurate and worthy of respect because it bypasses the normal process of reason.”
— Alain de Botton, The Course of Love: A Novel
Tagged: Love, Marriage, Soul Mates, This Is Love, True Love, When Love Begins
“What we typically call love is only the start of love.”
— Alain de Botton, The Course of Love: A Novel
Tagged: Love, Marriage, The Truth About Love, Truth About Love, Defining Love
“Love stories begin not when we fear someone may be unwilling to see us again but when they decide they would have no objection to seeing us all the time; not when they have every opportunity to run away but when they have exchanged solemn vows promising to hold us, and be held captive by us, for life.”
— Alain de Botton, The Course of Love: A Novel
Tagged: Love, Marriage, The Truth About Love, Truth About Love, Defining Love
“We allow our love stories to end way too early. We seem to know far too much about how love starts, and recklessly little about how it might continue.”
— Alain de Botton, The Course of Love: A Novel
Tagged: Love, Marriage, The Truth About Love, Truth About Love, Defining Love
“Love means admiration for qualities in the lover that promise to correct our weaknesses and imbalances; love is a search for completion.”
— Alain de Botton, The Course of Love: A Novel
Tagged: Love, Marriage, The Truth About Love, Truth About Love, Defining Love, soulmates, Soul Mate
“Love is also, and equally, about weakness, about being touched by another's fragilities and sorrows, especially when--as happens in the early days--we ourselves are in no danger of being held responsible for them.”
— Alain de Botton, The Course of Love: A Novel
Tagged: Love, Marriage, The Truth About Love, Truth About Love, Defining Love, soulmates, Soul Mate
“Love reaches a pitch at those moments when our beloved turns out to understand, more clearly than others have ever been able to, and perhaps even better than we do ourselves, the chaotic, embarrassing, and shameful parts of us. That someone else gets who we are and both sympathizes with us and forgives us for what they see underpins our whole capacity to trust and to give.”
— Alain de Botton, The Course of Love: A Novel
Tagged: Love, Marriage, The Truth About Love, Truth About Love, Defining Love, soulmates, Soul Mate
“Love is dividend of gratitude for our lover's insight into our own confused and troubled psyche.”
— Alain de Botton, The Course of Love: A Novel
Tagged: Love, Marriage, The Truth About Love, Truth About Love, Defining Love, soulmates, Soul Mate
“There is, in the early period of love where...we can be childish, imaginative, wild, hopeful, cynical, fragile, and multiple; all of this our lover can understand and accept us for.”
— Alain de Botton, The Course of Love: A Novel
Tagged: Love, Marriage, The Truth About Love, Truth About Love, Defining Love, soulmates, Soul Mate
“We believe we are seeking happiness in love, but we are really after is familiarity.”
— Alain de Botton, The Course of Love: A Novel
Tagged: Love, Marriage, The Truth About Love, Truth About Love, Defining Love, soulmates, Soul Mate
“Marriage: a hopeful, generous, infinitely kind gamble taken by two people who don't know yet who they are or who the other might be, binding themselves to a future they cannot conceive of and have carefully omitted to investigate.”
— Alain de Botton, The Course of Love: A Novel
Tagged: Love, Marriage, The Truth About Love, Truth About Love, Defining Love, soulmates, Soul Mate
“When two people belong together, there is simply--at long last--a wondrous reciprocal feeling that both parties see the world in precisely the same way.”
— Alain de Botton, The Course of Love: A Novel
Tagged: Love, Marriage, The Truth About Love, Truth About Love, Defining Love, soulmates, Soul Mate
“We don't need to be constantly reasonable in order to have good relationships; all we need to have mastered is the occasional capacity to acknowledge with good grace that we may, in one or two areas, be somewhat insane.”
— Alain de Botton, The Course of Love: A Novel
Tagged: Love, Marriage, The Truth About Love, Truth About Love, Defining Love, soulmates, Soul Mate, crazy, Crazy Love, Crazy Because Of Love, My Favorites
“Rather than some notional idea of perfect complementarity, it is the capacity to tolerate dissimilarity that is the true marker of the 'right' person.”
— Alain de Botton, The Course of Love: A Novel
Tagged: Love, Marriage, Soul Mates, This Is Love, True Love, Truth About Love, Love & Marriage, Infatuation