What did Alain de Botton mean by: Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition. - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland Copy
+ Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Happiness, Perspective, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ Cynics are – beneath it all – only idealists with awkwardly high standards. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, High Standards, Idealist, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Events, Existence, Spring, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ Our bodies hold our minds hostage to their whims and rhythms. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Body, Mind, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Acceptance, Wisdom, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ The only people we can think of as normal are those we don’t yet know very well. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Normal, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Achieve, Enough, Ordinary, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful. Feraz Zeid, October 29, 2023December 26, 2023, Alain de Botton, Angry, Cease, Hopeful, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
There is nothing men are so anxious to keep, and yet are so careless about, as life. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Everyone is ambition. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or to do. - Jean Monnet Economist
Certain dressmakers desire to pass for an artist. I have one ambition: that is to have good taste. - Jean Patou Fashion designer · France
Generally we obtain very surely and very speedily what we are not too anxious to obtain. Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
What is your greatest ambition in life?’ ‘To become immortal… and then die. - Jean-Luc Godard Filmmaker · France
Are parents always more ambitious for their children than they are for themselves? - Jeffrey Archer Author · England
