Balanços

"da próxima vez que virem alguém a conduzir um Ferrari, não pensem que se trata de uma pessoa gananciosa. Pensem, antes, que se trata de alguém tremendamente vulnerável e a precisar de amor."
Alain de Botton

"A snob is someone who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are."
Alain de Botton

Love your ego / Detached compassion

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One of the more embarrassing and self-indulgent challenges of our time is the task of relearning how to concentrate. The past decade has seen an unparalleled assault on our capacity to fix our minds steadily on anything. To sit still and think, without succumbing to an anxious reach for a machine, has become almost impossible.

The obsession with current events is relentless. We are made to feel that at any point, somewhere on the globe, something may occur to sweep away old certainties—something that, if we failed to learn about it instantaneously, could leave us wholly unable to comprehend ourselves or our fellows. We are continuously challenged to discover new works of culture—and, in the process, we don’t allow any one of them to assume a weight in our minds. We leave a movie theater vowing to reconsider our lives in the light of a film’s values. Yet by the following evening, our experience is well on the way to dissolution, like so much of what once impressed us: the ruins of Ephesus, the view from Mount Sinai, the feelings after finishing Tolstoy’s Death of Ivan Ilyich.
Alain de Botton: On Distraction / Our minds need to go on a diet.

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