Emmanuel

“When we don’t properly know why we’re doing something, we don’t know how much of it we need in our life. Simplicity, therefore, can be defined as the result and precious fruit of clarifying our goals.”
― 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

“We do not allow ourselves the requisite number of hours in which we might – to a critical outside eye – look as if we were doing ‘nothing’: gazing out of the window, following a trail of clouds across the evening sky, lying in a bath, walking around a park or writing down a few notes in a journal. It is precisely during these apparently empty hours of reflection that life’s real work unfolds – hours in which our worst mistakes can be caught, and our best opportunities identified.”
― The School of Life, A Simpler Life: A guide to greater serenity, ease, and clarity

“The sole cause of man’s unhappiness is that he cannot stay quietly in his room.”
― The School of Life, A Simpler Life: A guide to greater serenity, ease, and clarity