“By understanding and analyzing our feelings, we learn to see how emotions impact on our behavior in unexpected, counterintuitive and sometimes dangerous ways. Philosophers were the first therapists.”— Alain de Botton, dailystoic.comTagged: How To Think, The Person You'll Become, philosophers are therapists, philosophers are real therapists, Therapy Quotes
“You could perhaps say ‘happiness’ but ‘happiness’ is misleading, for it suggests continuous chirpiness and joy, whereas ‘fulfillment’ seems compatible with a lot of pain and suffering, which every decent life must by necessity have.”— Alain de Botton, dailystoic.comTagged: Philosophy, How To Think, Spirituality, Wisdom, Fulfillment