You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.
Weitere Zitate von Alain de Botton
Zum Autor"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."
"We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness..."
"Marriage: a deeply peculiar and ultimately unkind thing to inflict on anyone one claims to care for."
"Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person."
"Being put in our place by something larger, older, greater than ourselves is not a humiliation; it should be accepted as a relief from our insanely hopeful ambitions for our lives."
"Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope."