What did Alain de Botton mean by: One of love’s greatest drawbacks is that, for a while at least, it is in danger of making us happy. - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland Copy
+ 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
+ Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Crazy, Good Life, Optimism, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren’t there. The answers are there in the morning. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Mind, Morning, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ We keep a special place in our hearts for people who refuse to be impressed by us. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Heart, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Character, Parents, 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
+ In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Art, Devotion, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge. Feraz Zeid, September 22, 2023December 24, 2023, Alain de Botton, Revenge, Victory, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything. Explain - Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher · France
We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger. Explain - François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger. - Frank Herbert Author · USA
All private plans, all private lives, have been in a sense repealed by an overriding public danger. - Franklin D. Roosevelt 32nd U.S. President · USA
