“Next time you encounter someone driving a Ferrari, assume not that the driver is greedy, but that he or she is extremely vulnerable to insult and to being ignored…” more >>
-Alain de Botton, on Status Anxiety
Alain de Botton
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“The point of travel is to go to places that can help us with our inner evolution. The outer journey should assist us with the inner one.”
– Alain de Botton. Visit his site “The Book of Life“
“Choosing whom to commit ourselves to [or stay married with] is merely a case of identifying which particular variety of suffering we would most like to sacrifice ourselves for.” A short pep talk attempting to help modern couples live with the dilemma of needing closeness and freedom at the same time – from one of my favorite contemporary philosophers Alain de Botton. Visit his site “The Book of Life“