What did Alain de Botton mean by: One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone. - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland Copy
+ A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Animal, Inability, Suicide, 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
+ 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
+ One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024February 13, 2024, Alain de Botton, Disappointment, Protection, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ Not everyone is worth listening to. Feraz Zeid, July 6, 2023December 12, 2023, Alain de Botton, Listening, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ Cynics are – beneath it all – only idealists with awkwardly high standards. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, High Standards, Idealist, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from. Feraz Zeid, July 9, 2023December 12, 2023, Alain de Botton, Bitterness, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
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
No, it’s not a ‘corpse thing.’ I feel I lack the emotional capacity to deal with those in mourning. - Jen Lancaster Author · USA
It’s love and the capacity for love that distinguishes one human being from another. - Jennifer Stone Actress · USA
Hope gives us the courage to confront our circumstances and the capacity to surmount them. - Jerome Groopman
Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity. - William James Philosopher and psychologist · USA
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none. - William James Philosopher and psychologist · USA
Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment. - William McKinley Politician · USA