What did Alain de Botton mean by: Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day. - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland Copy
+ One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me? Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Asking, Book, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ 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
+ 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
+ How generous was it to offer gifts to people one knew would never accept them? Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Accepting, Offers, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Better Life, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Bars, Interesting, 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
+ Why, then, if expensive things cannot bring us remarkable joy, are we so powerfully drawn to them? Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Joy, Remarkable, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it. - Michelangelo Artist · Italy
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. - Walter Bagehot Economist and journalist · England
Pain is unjust, and all the arguments That cannot soothe it only rouse suspicion. - Jean Racine Playwright · France
Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity. Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
Most people aren’t cut out for value investing, because human nature shrinks from pain. - Jean-Marie Eveillard
