Emmanuel

“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

“Paradoxically, the human brain – which as the organ for thought could be assumed to love this activity above any other – seems to operate with a firm bias in favour of action over reflection.”
― The School of Life, A Simpler Life: A guide to greater serenity, ease, and clarity

“Bookshops, the toy shops of big people, end as places where our disappointments with others can be mediated and redeemed, and friends not found in life can be secured through the grown-up game we soberly call ‘literature’.”
― The School of Life, The Good Enough Parent: How to raise contented, interesting, and resilient children

“Silence gives us an opportunity to appreciate a great deal of what we generally see without ever properly noticing, and to understand what we have felt but not yet adequately processed.”
― The School of Life, A Simpler Life: A guide to greater serenity, ease, and clarity