What did Alain de Botton mean by: The only way to be happy is to realise how much depends on how you look at things - 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
+ 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
+ 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
+ Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Art, Choices, 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
+ Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Book, Remains, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ People who go on to be writers are those who can forgive themselves the horror of the first draft. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Forgiving, Goes On, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
+ True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alain de Botton, Majority, Reasoning, 0 - Alain de Botton Writer · Switzerland
I didn’t realise those spaces were for the emotionally handicapped. - Jean-Louis Gassee Entrepreneur · France
The closer you are to people, the more you realise what has happened to them. - Jennifer Lynch Filmmaker · USA
I started to realise that being impolite saves an awful lot of time and costs you nothing. - Jeremy Clarkson Television presenter · England
Once you realise there’s nothing to be afraid of when you die, there’s nothing else to worry about. - Michael Thomas Ford Author · USA
As I have got older, I have become easier on myself. It’s about realising things can’t be perfect. - Harriet Walter
One of the things that you never realise while you are young is that things do come to an end. - George Ogilvie
