Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.
Weitere Zitate von Alain de Botton
Zum Autor"Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person."
"Blessed with riches and possibilities far beyond anything imagined by ancestors who tilled the unpredictable soil of medieval Europe, modern populations have nonetheless shown a remarkable capacity to feel that neither who they are nor what they have is quite enough."
"We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness..."
"On paper, being good sounds great but a lot depends on the atmosphere of the workplace or community we live in. We tend to become good or bad depending on the cues sent out within a particular space."
"It's very hard to respect people on holiday - everybody looks so silly at the beach, it makes you hate humanity - but when you see people at their work they elicit respect, whether it's a mechanic, a stonemason or an accountant."
"Marriage: a deeply peculiar and ultimately unkind thing to inflict on anyone one claims to care for."