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“There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.”
Source: How Proust Can Change Your Life
Alain de Botton livre Status Anxiety
Source: Status Anxiety
“Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition.”
Alain de Botton livre Status Anxiety
Source: Status Anxiety
“… love is a skill, not just an enthusiasm.”
Source: The Course of Love
Source: How Proust Can Change Your Life
Source: A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary
Source: The Art of Travel
Source: The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work (2009), p. 284.
Contexte: It appeared that the one area in which Sir Bob excelled was anxiety. He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others’ mediocrity—suggesting that a certain kind of intelligence may at heart be nothing more or less than a superior capacity for dissatisfaction.
Alain de Botton livre The Architecture of Happiness
Source: The Architecture of Happiness
Alain de Botton livre The Consolations of Philosophy
Source: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter III, Consolation For Frustration, p. 80.
Contexte: Though the terrain of frustration may be vast — from a stubbed toe to an untimely death — at the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.
