Emmanuel

“We will fall out of love with money the more we learn to fall in love with something else: farming, music, service, writing, God, quiet evenings at home or the painting of slow, delicate lines across pale pink canvases.”
― The School of Life, A Simpler Life: A guide to greater serenity, ease, and clarity

“what am I reading for? And this time, rather than answering, ‘In order to know everything,’ we might decide on a much more limited, focused and useful goal. We might decide that while society as a whole is on a search for total knowledge, all we really need is to gather the knowledge that is going to be useful to us as we lead our own lives.”
― The School of Life, A Simpler Life: A guide to greater serenity, ease, and clarity

“Put simply: love is the considerate, tender, patient behaviour displayed by an adult over many years towards a child who cannot help but be largely out of control, confused, frustrating and bewildered. Over time this will allow the child to grow into an adult who can take its place in society without too much of a loss of spontaneity, without too much terror and with a basic trust in its own capacities and chances of fulfilment. It should be a matter of global consternation that, despite our many advances, we are still only at the dawn of knowing how to ensure that we all have the loving childhoods we deserve.”
― The School of Life, The Good Enough Parent: How to raise contented, interesting, and resilient children

“For the last two centuries, a cult has been spreading widely and rapidly around the world, seeking to dominate and control every moment of our lives; today it has hundreds of millions of adherents, including almost all the conspicuously successful individuals on the planet. Neither a religious dogma nor a political creed, it is devoted instead to a single, striking ideal: busyness.”
― The School of Life, A Simpler Life: A guide to greater serenity, ease, and clarity