What did Alain de Botton mean by: As we write, so we build: to keep a record of what matters to us. - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland Copy
+ Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Tendencies, Unfortunate, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Balance, Fight, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition. Feraz Zeid, November 4, 2023December 26, 2023, Alain de Botton, Ambitious, Anxiety, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ The secular world is full of holes. We have secularized badly. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, God, Soul, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Book, Sad, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness. Feraz Zeid, June 29, 2023December 12, 2023, Alain de Botton, Art, Promise, Wholeness, 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
+ The only way to be happy is to realise how much depends on how you look at things Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Realising, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once. Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art. - William Ralph Inge Theologian and Anglican priest · England
To express truth is to write naturally, forcibly, and delicately. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Writing, like drawing is an art, and whatever conveys the meaning is justified. - Maxwell Perkins Editor · USA
