You don't have to give people fish everyday but instead you must give them the pole to learn how to fish themselves.
Pascal BrucknerThe cult of happiness turns into a huge concern which to my opinion is exactly contrary to what happiness should be: a paradise of enchantment.
Pascal BrucknerYou construct your happiness as you construct a house and you have to work on it. It is a daily job.
Pascal BrucknerToday, luxury resides in everything that is becoming rare: communion with nature, silence, meditation, slowness rediscovered, the pleasure of living out of step with others, studious idleness, the enjoyment of the major works of the mindโthese are all privileges that cannot be bought because they are literally priceless.
Pascal Bruckner