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The Architecture of Happiness

The Achitecture of Happiness is a dazzling and generously illustrated journey through the philosophy and psychology of architecture and the indelible connection between our identities and our locations.One of the great but often unmentioned causes

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“It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value.”

— Alain de Botton, amazon.com

Tagged: Pain, beauty, Value

“It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.”

— Alain de Botton, amazon.com

Tagged: Problems, Appreciation, Law OF Attraction, beauty

“We need a home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for a vulnerability. We need a refuge to shore up our states of mind, because so much of the world is opposed to our allegiances. We need our rooms to align us to desirable versions of ourselves and to ke…”

— Alain de Botton, amazon.com

Tagged: Philosophy, The Person You'll Become