We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.
Alain de Bottonto design means forcing ourselves to unlearn what we believe we already know, patiently to take apart the mechanisms behind our reflexes and to acknowledge the mystery and stupefying complexity of everyday gestures like switching off a light of turning on a tap
Alain de BottonAfter 40 (old age for most of man's history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.
Alain de Botton