What did Alain de Botton mean by: Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone – and finding that that’s ok with them. - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland Copy
+ What we find exotic abroad may be what we hunger for in vain at home. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Home, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Challenge, Interesting, 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
+ We should not be frightened by appearances. Explain Feraz Zeid, August 23, 2023December 24, 2023, Alain de Botton, Appearance, Frightened, 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
+ 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
+ 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
+ Dreams reveal we never quite get ‘over’ anything: it’s all still in there somewhere. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Dream, Get Over, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
Relationship is an art. The dream that two people create is more difficult to master than one. - Miguel Angel Ruiz Author · Mexico
Muscles I know; they are my friends. But I have forgotten their names. - Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Painter · France
What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination - Jean-Francois Lyotard
We are losing our own capacity because we are poisoned in one way or another. - Jean-Luc Godard Filmmaker · France
You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul. - Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse Salon hostess · France
You can relate to somebody’s pain and you have compassion, which can lead to intimacy. - Jeff Bridges Actor · USA
No, it’s not a ‘corpse thing.’ I feel I lack the emotional capacity to deal with those in mourning. - Jen Lancaster Author · USA