What did Alain de Botton mean by: Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough. - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland Copy
+ 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
+ Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone – and finding that that’s ok with them. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Capacity, Intimacy, Relationships, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things. Feraz Zeid, June 10, 2023December 12, 2023, Alain de Botton, Inspiration, Maturity, Opinion, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ As we write, so we build: to keep a record of what matters to us. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Records, What Matters, Writing, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ People who go on to be writers are those who can forgive themselves the horror of the first draft. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Forgiving, Goes On, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ If one felt successful, there’d be so little incentive to be successful. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Incentives, Successful, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn’t call. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Hands, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Intuition, Judgement, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
The flatterer does not think highly enough of himself or of others. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable? Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
One should commit no stupidity twice, the variety of choice is, in the end, large enough. Explain - Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher · France
What is boredom? It is when there is simultaneously too much and not enough. Explain - Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher · France
Intellectuals cannot be good revolutionaries; they are just good enough to be assassins. Explain - Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher · France
I am neither virgin nor priest enough to play with the inner life. Explain - Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher · France
To love someone else enough to forget about yourself even for one moment is to be free. - Jeanette Winter Illustrator