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.
Weitere Zitate von Alain de Botton
Zum Autor"We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness..."
"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."
"Marriage: a deeply peculiar and ultimately unkind thing to inflict on anyone one claims to care for."
"The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren't there. The answers are there in the morning."
"Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope."
"Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us."