We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness...
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Zum Autor"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."
"Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope."
"You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days."
"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."
"He [Wordsworth] invited his readers to abandon their usual perspective and to consider for a time how the world might look through other eyes, to shuttle between the human and the natural perspective. Why might this be interesting, or even inspiring? Perhaps because unhappiness can stem from only having one perspective to play with."