Instead of bringing back 1600 plants, we might return from our journeys with a collection of small unfรชted but life-enhancing thoughts.
Alain de BottonAccording to one influential wing of modern secular society there are few more disreputable fates than to end up being 'like everyone else' for 'everyone else' is a category that comprises the mediocre and the conformist, the boring and the suburban. The goal of all right-thinking people should be to mark themselves off from the crowd and 'stand out' in whatever way their talents allow.
Alain de BottonWhat should worry us is not the number of people that oppose us, but how good their reasons are for doing so.
Alain de Botton