Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person.
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..."
"You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days."
"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."
"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."
"Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us."
"The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren't there. The answers are there in the morning."