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